Meaning & use
Knit
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To make fabric or a garment by looping yarn together using needles or a machine.
See it in a sentence
My grandmother knit a sweater for each of her grandchildren.
The two communities knit together after years of shared hardship.
A note on using this word
"Knit" is also used figuratively to describe things joining closely together, as in "a tightly knit community" or a broken bone that "knits" back together.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
unravel
Another way to use it
2. verb
To join closely together, or (of a broken bone) to grow back together and heal.
The fracture took six weeks to knit properly.
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