sew
/soʊ/ verb A2- To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. · I sewed a button on.
- To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
- Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. · to sew money into a bag
Plural sew · He/she/it sews · Past sewed · Past participle sewn · -ing form sewing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sew
- He/she/it
- sews
- Past
- sewed
- Past participle
- sewn
- -ing form
- sewing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He, no doubt, thought that prisoners who died in the Château d’If were interred in an ordinary burial-ground, and he conveyed the dead man into his own cell, took his place in the sack in which they had sewed up the corpse, and awaited the moment of interment.”
We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
And the Tin Woodman saw that his terrible Beast was nothing but a lot of skins, sewn together, with slats to keep their sides out.
“Now, if you will help me sew the silk together, we will begin to work on our balloon.”
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