Knit Knitted Knitting Nɪt I Make Sense Verb

• i knitted this cardigan myself.
• lucy was sitting on the sofa, knitting.
• she's knitting the baby a shawl.
• knit one row, purl one row.

knit

1. to make clothes, etc. from wool or cotton thread using two long thin knitting needles or a machine
• I knitted this cardigan myself.
• Lucy was sitting on the sofa, knitting.
• She's knitting the baby a shawl.
2. to use a basic stitch in knitting
• Knit one row, purl one row.
3. to join people or things closely together or to be joined closely together
• a closely/tightly knit community (= one in which relationships are very close)
• Society is knit together by certain commonly held beliefs.
4. to grow together again to form one piece; to make broken bones grow together again
• synonym mend
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mend_1
• The bone failed to knit correctly.
5. to move your eyebrows together, to show that you are thinking hard, feeling angry, etc.
• synonym frown
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/frown_1
• His brows were knitted in a permanent frown.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they knit
• he / she / it knits
• past simple knitted
• past participle knitted
• -ing form knitting

Word Origin

• Old English cnyttan, of West Germanic origin; related to German dialect knütten, also to knot. The original sense was ‘tie in or with a knot’, hence ‘join, unite’ (sense (3)); an obsolete Middle English sense ‘knot string to make a net’ gave rise to sense (1).