🤝 To repair relationships 🧶 To knit again

to reknit

1 7.4

Make something again using yarn and needles after taking it apart

verb
/rɪˈnɪt/

: volver a tejer

I ripped it out and reknit it several times.

Examples

To improve the fit of the sweater, she had to reknit several sections after unraveling them.
After realizing her mistake, she decided to reknit the scarf to make it look perfect.
He took apart the sweater and reknit it to create a different pattern.

Antonyms

to unravel

53 4.3

To come apart into threads, like a rope or cloth

How Repaired

to restore

261 3.5

to reknit

1 7.4

to stitch

79 2.5

to rework

30 4.0

Surface Forms

reknit infinitive

rekindling present participle

rekknits third person singular

rekind past

rekind past participle

Morphology

reknit = knit (transparent) = re + knit

The meaning is a standard and fully predictable case of 're-' meaning 'again' added to the verb 'knit'.

Etymology

The word reknit is built from re- 'again' and knit 'to join with thread', so it literally means to knit something again to fix or change it.