as in stitched
to close up with a series of interlacing stitches
the doctor cleaned, sutured, and bandaged the wound
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Recent Examples of sutured
The surgeon sutured the wounds but knew the arm would have to be amputated.
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Sarah El Deeb, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
The travelogue portion of Walking the Bypass is sutured, sometimes maladroitly, to a history of the Crown’s abuses of Indigenous peoples.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Working primarily with rubbery mock-ups of human tissue, experimental robots have sutured, cleaned wounds, and cut out tumors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
Sarah El Deeb, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
The travelogue portion of Walking the Bypass is sutured, sometimes maladroitly, to a history of the Crown’s abuses of Indigenous peoples.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Working primarily with rubbery mock-ups of human tissue, experimental robots have sutured, cleaned wounds, and cut out tumors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sutured
stitched
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However, Blackstone Valley returned to the ice for the first time since the fatal attack earlier this month, with players donning hearts stitched on the front of their jerseys with the initials of all three who died.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Jimmy Savile may not have been connected to Leeds United, but he was stitched into the fabric of the city.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Sutured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sutured. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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