SUTURING Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

suturing 1 of 2

noun

as in sewing

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verb

present participle of suture

as in stitching

to close up with a series of interlacing stitches the doctor cleaned, sutured, and bandaged the wound

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unsewing

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Recent Examples of suturing

Noun

Liu’s Met commission, with its disembodied hands, its severing and suturing of the organic and the mechanical, may be a metaphor for a civilization detached from its foundations and coming to its end. — Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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 The issue was surrounding his leg amputation surgery, a procedure that involves stretching the muscles and suturing them to provide the bone with padding. — Jacob Louraine, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026 Treatment typically starts with clipping the fur around the injury, cleaning the area and, if needed, suturing the skin. — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026 Researchers compared the performance of the autonomous bot and a human surgeon on the same suturing task and found that the bot's stitches were more uniform and made a tighter seal. — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016

Recent Examples of Synonyms for suturing

Noun

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
Helen admired pheasants and kept their long, rusty feathers in her sewing room.

— Tom Drury, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 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

Last week, the Sacramento State art department was informed that funds allocated years ago for repairs in an aging building had been revoked.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Some of the repairs that are becoming more expensive are virtually as old as fuel-burning vehicles themselves.

— Robert Ferris, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of repair

Verb

In follow-up posts on X, Tesla said that a service visit for the charge port is mandatory after every use of the feature, and that, depending on the Supercharger, the electrical and civil costs of repairing the damage can reach up to $25,000.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026
If your tenants are long-term and reliable, speak with them about their needs and preferences and go from there—sometimes repairing rather than renovating can help preserve goodwill and minimize disruption.

— Alex Vasquez, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of repairing

Noun

East of Eden is a tome obsessed with guilt, sin, ambition, race, the land as healing and capitalism as putrefying, the nature of fate and the question of free will, and the role money and inheritance play in either our corruption or our cleansing.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Tristan Buzzini As a psychologist and advocate, Tristan Buzzini aspires to be a healing presence for others.

— The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of healing

Noun

The council also plans to hold special public hearings, to find out how the Academy got to the point of closing, and what possible solutions might look like.

— Andrew Stelzer, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026
See fans’ reactions and more details of the closing in my recent story.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of closing

Noun

Logan Morris put the Lions in front with a minute left, then kicked the sealing points.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
On third-and-10 from the Miami 22, O’Connor jumped Foley’s route up the middle of the field and hauled in what was essentially the game-sealing interception of quarterback Gio Lopez for the Hurricanes in Miami’s 33-20 win.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of sealing

Noun

Instead of spreading yarn spinning, knitting, and dyeing across different locations, the Guatemalan plant brings the entire process together in one place.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
This arm-knitting technique is especially appealing for beginners, and the resulting oversized texture will look warm and welcoming draped over a sofa or chair.

— Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026

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