remove a stitch
Frequency: 8.07.5 per million words
To take out a stitch, either from sewing or a medical wound.
Categories:
Examples (10)
- The nurse will remove your stitches next week.
- Her stitches were removed yesterday after the surgery.
- I've already had the doctor remove my stitches from the cut.
- Carefully remove that loose stitch before it unravels the whole garment.
- If you make a mistake in your knitting, you can always remove a stitch and try again.
- Could you please remove these stitches for me? They're starting to itch.
- This embroidery stitch needs to be removed and redone for a neater finish.
- It's usually a quick and relatively painless procedure to remove stitches from a wound.
- The surgeon is currently removing the final stitches from the patient's abdomen.
- She had to remove several stitches from the hem to adjust the length of the dress.