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 nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
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CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
—Brett Kelman, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
The surgeon sutured the wounds but knew the arm would have to be amputated.
—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
CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
The nerves can be sutured back together to minimize pain, Bank said, but most breast surgeons haven’t been trained to do this.
—Brett Kelman, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
The surgeon sutured the wounds but knew the arm would have to be amputated.
—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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Their light gray uppers are made with cotton for airflow in warm weather, and they’re stitched with a thin line of leather around the soles for plenty of durability.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Cut and stitched in Arusha, 10 tents—including two family suites—form a horseshoe from the main area, each filled with wooden furnishings crafted by local carpenters.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Sutured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sutured. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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