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Definition: UNSTITCH |
UNSTITCHTransitive verb1. To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. |
Date "UNSTITCH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "UNSTITCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حرر (cast off, clear, decontrol, deliver, detach, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, grant freedom, liberate, manumit, open, phrase, redact, redeem, release, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, subedit, unchain, uncork, unleash, unlock). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разшивам (unrip, unseam), разпарям (pull, rip, rip open, rip up, unpick, unrip, unseam, untuck), отшивам (unpick). (various references) | |
French | libérer (unfetter, unfreeze, unshackle), démonter (unbend, unhinge, unhorse). (various references) | |
German | heraustrennen, auftrennen (ravel out, undo, unpick). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפרום (rip, unbutton, undo stitches, untie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felfejt (to ravel, to ravel out, to unravel, to unstitch, unpick, unweave). (various references) | |
Italian | scucire (come unstitched). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itchunstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tirar os pontos, descoser (rip up, unpick, unrip, unseam). (various references) | |
Russian | распарывать (rip, rip up, unpick, unrip, unseam). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rasparati (unseam), rašiti. (various references) | |
Spanish | descoser (unpick). (various references) | |
Turkish | sökmek (cut loose, demount, detach, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dismount, knock down, Ravel, ravel out, read, rip, rip off, slit, spring, take down, tear down, undo, unfix, unpick, unravel, unrig), dikişlerini sökmek (rip open, rip up, unrip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпорювати (rip up, unpick). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dissuta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNSTITCH": unstitched, unstitches, unstitching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-n-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: chutist. | |
-2 letters: chints, cutins, schuit, snitch, stitch, tincts, tunics. | |
-3 letters: chins, chits, cuish, cutin, cutis, hints, hunts, ictus, incus, shunt, stich, stint, stunt, suint, thins, tinct, tints, tunic, units. | |
-4 letters: chin, chis, chit, cist, cuts, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, huic, huns, hunt, huts, ichs, inch, itch, nits, nuts, scut, shin, shun, shut, sinh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-n-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: unchastity, unesthetic, unstitched, unstitches. | |
+3 letters: technetiums, unaesthetic, unstitching. | |
+4 letters: enthusiastic, haircuttings, shortcutting, unchastities. | |
+5 letters: authenticates, outstretching, sansculottish, unsympathetic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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