knit
/nɪt/ verb B1- To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. · to knit a stocking· The first generation knitted to order; the second still knits for its own use; the next leaves knitting to industrial manufacturers.
- To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front. · Stitches that are knitted look like little V’s when seen from the front.
- To join closely and firmly together. · The fight for survival knitted the men closely together.
- To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- To grow together. · All those seedlings knitted into a kaleidoscopic border.
- To combine from various elements. · The witness knitted together his testimony from contradictory pieces of hearsay.
- To heal following a fracture. · I’ll go skiing again after my bones knit.
- To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
He/she/it knits · Past knit · Past participle knit · -ing form knitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- knit
- He/she/it
- knits
- Past
- knit
- Past participle
- knit
- -ing form
- knitting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was evident from his pale face and knit brows that his resolution to revenge himself was growing weaker.
Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window, knitting “cotton warp” quilts--she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices--and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously; and here she sat now, knitting, and the table behind her was laid for supper.
Lynde, who was sitting knitting by her kitchen window.
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