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OVERSEW
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: oversewn
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they oversew ... he / she / it oversews
Past simple: oversewed
Past participle: oversewn
-ing form: oversewing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sew (two edges) with close stitches that pass over them both
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "oversew" is one way to...):
overcast (sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something