Synonyms of piecing

piecing

verb

present participle of piece

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• constructing
• assembling
• making
• creating
• erecting
• fabricating
• designing
• manufacturing
• establishing
• producing
• making up
• setting up
• confecting
• rearing
• putting together
• raising
• putting up
• rebuilding
• shaping
• organizing
• forging
• molding
• reconstructing
• framing
• fashioning
• generating
• hammering
• inventing
• concocting
• beginning
• reassembling
• carpentering
• combining
• handcrafting
• prefabricating
• imagining
• devising
• innovating
• originating
• initiating
• coining
• founding
• cooking (up)
• constituting
• thinking (up)
• instituting
• conceiving
• retrofitting
• contriving
• inaugurating
• redeveloping
• uniting
• reedifying
• throwing up
• fathering
• rigging (up)
• jerry-building

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantling
• disassembling
• striking
• destroying
• dismembering
• tearing down
• wrecking
• taking down
• smashing
• flattening
• knocking down
• pulverizing
• shattering
• ruining
• demolishing
• leveling
• devastating
• pulling down
• exploding
• razing
• dividing
• demounting
• detaching
• separating
• blowing up
• disengaging
• disconnecting
• ruinating
• disjoining
• disuniting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of piecing

Through the limited perspectives of letters, readers are only able to see events from one point of view at first, but have the satisfying experience of piecing the full story together as more perspectives are revealed. — Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

Without a clear presentation to Congress or a formal address to the nation, the administration's communication has been scattershot and intermittent, leaving Americans with the task of piecing it all together. — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026

According to his mother, Anthony at one point had been piecing things together and was volunteering in the community. — Tim Fang, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026

As the pair confer with forensics and begin piecing things together, the detectives learn that the unit was once home to Oliver and his live-in girlfriend, Ciara. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026

Researchers are currently piecing the story together, one experiment at a time, rather than proving out every step sequentially in the same set of organisms. — Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025

The two men, by that time, began piecing a plan together and met with their wives about it. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025

Now, Kolchenko and his team are piecing it back together. — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025

Bruck made her costume herself, sewing each vine on by hand and carefully piecing it together in the weeks leading up to the party, as her friends told WXYZ-TV Detroit. — Kelsey Lentz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025