knit up

English

Verb

knit up (third-person singular simple present knits up, present participle knitting up, simple past and past participle knit up or knitted up)

1. (transitive) To close up or draw together by knitting.
   • 1976, Helen Yglesias, chapter XV, in Family Feeling, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, page 216:

     But daily he knit up the fabric that their bad loving had ripped the night before.

   • 2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61:

     To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.

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• upknit