stitch

/stɪtʃ/ noun

Definition

THREAD [C] › a short line of thread that is sewn through a piece of material

WOUND [C] › one of the small pieces of thread that is used to sew together a cut: She needed 50 stitches in her head.

WOOL [C] › one of the small circles of wool that you make when you are knitting (= making something from wool)

PAIN [no plural] › a sudden pain that you get in the side of your body when you exercise too much: to get a stitch

in stitches › laughing a lot: He had the whole audience in stitches.

(Definition of stitch noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to express disagreement or refuse to do something

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