knit up

verb

To close up or draw together by knitting.

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Meanings

verbknit up (third-person singular simple present knits up, present participle knitting up, simple past and past participle knit up or knitted up)

present singular third person knits up · participle present knitting up · participle past knitted up · past knitted up

  1. transitiveTo close up or draw together by knitting.

    But daily he knit up the fabric that their bad loving had ripped the night before.

    1976, Helen Yglesias, chapter XV, in Family Feeling, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, page 216
    1 more example

    To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.

    2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61
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