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/ˈmɪt.n̩/ · noun
A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered..
to give someone the mitten; to get the mitten
He mittened his hand and beat it violently for a minute before exposing it to the frost to strike a match.
Use mitten when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mitten means A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered..
Common synonyms include sock, mittens.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to give someone the mitten; to get the mitten
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