Usually means: Mending holes in fabric, clothing.
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  1. darning: Merriam-Webster
  2. darning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. darning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. darning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Darning, darning: Wordnik
  6. darning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. darning: Wiktionary
  8. darning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. darning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. darning: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Darning, darning: Dictionary.com
  12. darning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Darning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Darning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. darning: Rhymezone
  16. Darning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. darning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. darning: FreeDictionary.org
  19. darning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. darning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darning: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (darning)

▸ noun:  A repair made by darning.

Similar:
damn, hoot, shit, shucks, darning needle, darning egg, darning mushroom, dining needle, dip stitch, darnex, more...

Opposite:
unraveling, ripping, tearing, fraying

Types:
cross-stitch, darn, mending, embroidery, tatting, crochet, knitting, more...

Phrases:
darning needle, darning needles, darning egg, darning stitch, devils darning needle, more...

Adjectives:
fine, own, swiss, careful, more, neat, easy, worth, ordinary, vertical, invisible

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Similar:
damn, hoot, shit, shucks, darning needle, darning egg, darning mushroom, dining needle, dip stitch, darnex, more...

Opposite:
unraveling, ripping, tearing, fraying

Types:
cross-stitch, darn, mending, embroidery, tatting, crochet, knitting, more...

Phrases:
darning needle, darning needles, darning egg, darning stitch, devils darning needle, devil's darning needle, darning last, darning eggs, devils darning needles, darning mushroom, darning mushrooms, more...

Adjectives:
fine, own, swiss, careful, more, neat, easy, worth, ordinary, vertical, invisible



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