stitching
noun
the act of a person or thing that stitches.
unstitching
-
a word derived from
stitching.
Example Sentences
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Like unstitching a blanket, or unbaking a cake: you can choose your own simile, but the inference is clear.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2017
As it was with the Knicks and the oft-injured Reed, Portland’s eventual sorrow and unstitching began at center, where Walton’s congenitally fragile feet short-circuited a second run the next season and perhaps a dynastic era.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2014
Mantel is unstitching history – reimagining events as provisional, undecided.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
Europe needs a strategy for shoring up banks before unstitching a July accord to cut Greek bond values by an average of 21 percent, Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme said.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 10, 2011
Ch'ing Wen commenced by unstitching the lining, and, inserting under it, a bamboo bow, of the size of the mouth of a tea cup, she bound it tight at the back.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
