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   darn

   /dɑːn/

   verb

   • 1. mend (a hole in knitted material) by interweaving yarn with a needle: "I don't expect you to darn my socks"
   • ▪ embroider (material) with a large running stitch.

   noun

   • 1. a place in a garment that has been darned: "a sweater with darns in the elbows"

   Word Origin early 17th century: perhaps from dialect dern ‘to hide’, which is from Old Englishdiernan, of West Germanic origin; compare with Middle Dutch dernen ‘stop holes in (a dyke)’.

   Scrabble Points: 5

   • D

     2

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • N

     1

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