STITCHES Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

stitches 1 of 2

noun

plural of stitch

as in pains

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body had to drop out of the race when the stitch in his side became too painful

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stitches

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of stitch

as in sutures

to close up with a series of interlacing stitches the doctor stitched the wound so adroitly that the scar was barely visible after the stitches were removed

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unsews

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Recent Examples of stitches

Noun

Bebe Rexha was hit in the face with a cellphone, resulting in a man getting arrested and the singer getting stitches. —

Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 Back in 2023, Bebe Rexha was struck by a phone at a New York City concert and had to get stitches. —

Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026 Ivelisse Garcia Santana said her grandson Jeury Concepcion needed several stitches after ICE agents wrestled him to the ground. —

Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 8 May 2026 The gradual acceleration built over days and stitches. —

John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026 Her stitches stretched and snapped. —

Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 Nick Offerman had the DGA Theater in stitches during Deadline’s Contenders TV panel for Apple TV’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles. —

Amanda Champagne-Meadows, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2026 Robert Cheevers’ father, Gerry Cheevers, was a goalie for the Boston Bruins beginning in the 1965-1966 season and was known for his league-leading performances and his practice of marking his mask with stitches to show where pucks had hit him. —

Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2026

Verb

The video stitches past and present with archival clips, studio cuts, and a handshake that seals this intergenerational torch-passing moment. —

Natalia Cano, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2026 Keem also released a trailer for the record, which stitches clips of him in the studio together with home videos and interviews with his family. —

Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2026 Pragmatic, unflappable, and just a few ticks toward the warmer side of cynicism, her work is what stitches the show together. —

Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025 In Katong, Bebe Seet stitches one-millimeter glass beads onto slippers in a shophouse studio. —

Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025 The system then stitches these submaps together into one coherent 3D model, allowing a robot to move quickly while maintaining spatial accuracy. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stitches

Noun

Ebola causes a hemorrhagic fever, with symptoms that start with fever, aches, pains and fatigue before progressing to diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding, according to the public health agency.

— Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
But in the four years between the two terms, Xi had taken pains to ensure this tactic would no longer work, with export controls on rare earth metals that are indispensable to American arms manufacturers and carmakers.

— Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 15 May 2026