What is "sewing up"

Usage examples of "sewing up".

So you reckon we are stuck here until Isis gets through with sewing up her husband.

But what else am I supposed to wear for working with messy potions, dosing sick babies, and sewing up bloody gashes?

She drove her horse around to trample the surgeon and the man he was sewing up.

She told me Raven made the doll, as I had guessed, and that now he was sewing up a wardrobe.

I had seven people in tourniquets and was sewing up an eighth, the man's leg laying on my lap, when Count Lambert rode up with a dozen knights.

Father's physician is busy sewing up a wound he says he got in a fall.

He couldn't quite picture Bing sewing up sandbags, but he supposed there were bigger wonders in the world.