piece

²piece

verb

piecedpiec·ing

Definition of PIECE

transitive verb

1

: to repair, renew, or complete by adding pieces : patch

2

: to join into a whole —often used with together <his new book … has been pieced together from talks — Merle Miller>

— piec·er noun

Examples of PIECE

1. <you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth>

First Known Use of PIECE

15th century

Related to PIECE

Synonyms: assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, build, put up, raise, rear, set up

Antonyms: demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down

Related Words: carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite

Near Antonyms: demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck; blow up, explode; detach, disengage; disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate

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