knit
verb (used with object)
to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
reknit
-
a word derived from
knit.
Example Sentences
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Some healable polymers require a trigger, such as exposure to a particular temperature, light or pressure, to reknit their broken bonds.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2023
Our social crisis of fragmentation and declining social trust can be confronted only by efforts to reknit social ties.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021
“I hope … to see the community reknit across the no man’s land which has been there for more than 40 years.”
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016
If you cut your finger, the tissue grows back, and beneath the skin the nerves reknit their severed connections.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
We had a thousand things to converse about, and in a few hours all our old friendship was reknit, and we became more intimate than ever.
From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival
