DARNING Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

darning 1 of 2

noun

as in sewing

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darning

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verb

present participle of darn

as in stitching

to close up with a series of interlacing stitches in the old days, holes in socks had to be darned by hand

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unsewing

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Recent Examples of darning

Noun

There’s also a vineyard, a library and a school of arts and crafts that teaches masonry, gardening and farming, tailoring, knitting, cutting and sewing, darning and mending. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026

Verb

By Jennifer Barger Special to The Washington Post One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for darning

Noun

In the back rooms, Rana teaches mathematics for free, alongside women running secret lessons in English and computer skills under cover of sewing and beadwork.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026
After his best friend died of AIDS, activist Cleve Jones channeled his grief into a sewing project that became the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of sewing

Verb

He’s made elegant additions, too, such as stitching in a lovely fairy tale that Ionesco wrote for his daughter and staging it with a whimsical storm of soap bubbles.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
The hand-crocheted The Sak Bryn Slip-on Clogs come in a rich mahogany hue, or a playful peach shade with fall-friendly contrast stitching.

— Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of stitching

Noun

This includes warp and weft knitting, dyeing, digital, flat-bed and heat-transfer printing, stentering and finishing proficiencies.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
In knitting, loops from the middle of an entangled yarn are slipped through one another so the yarn holds its position but isn’t knotted together.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of knitting

Verb

The first surgeries—suturing vaginal lacerations post-delivery—were reported in 1050 AD.

— Valerie Monroe, Allure, 21 Sep. 2026
The company says the system would be able to perform hemorrhage control, wound repair, chest decompression, shrapnel extraction, and field suturing, stabilizing the patient until evacuation can be carried out.

— Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026

Definition of suturing

Noun

Think of it as a delivery service that carries copper where the skin can use it to support repair, collagen production, and antioxidant activity.

— Mickey Williams, Flow Space, 9 Oct. 2026
Her friends covered the repair costs, knowing the family could not afford it.

— Catherine Ellis, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of repair

Verb

There’s also the question of repairing equipment, which is much more difficult in space.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
This may include repairing or repositioning a sprinkler, changing the irrigation schedule, removing standing water, posting warning signs, or temporarily restricting access to an affected area.

— Christyne D. Santisteban, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of repairing

Noun

Yet, in many cases simple mending, either done yourself or at a dry cleaner shop, can fix the problem.

— Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
There’s also a vineyard, a library and a school of arts and crafts that teaches masonry, gardening and farming, tailoring, knitting, cutting and sewing, darning and mending.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of mending

Noun

Chief Justice John Roberts gave the Federal Communications Commission a temporary win on Thursday in its legal battle over who is entitled to favorable advertising rates in the closing weeks of the costly and hotly contested midterm elections.

— Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
The closing look circled back to the same idea, but this time the same model carried the bag with a black skirt suit, the most undiluted iteration of Chanel.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 9 Oct. 2026

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