Wiktionary
vb. 1 to close by sewing 2 (context slang English) to maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone
Usage examples of "stitch up".
Then they would stitch up roughly, using a big baseball stitch—.
I was able, to remove the 'tube ftorn his throat, and stitch up the incision-a small but painful operation that he had borne with body stiff -and eyes wide open, staring up at the ceiling while I worked.
He 'II weave up the sun in the blink of an eye And stitch up the stars in the night!
T suggest, Sir Adam, when this had been done you did not stitch up the ovaries, uterus, and veins properly.
And when I find it in the morning, I'll stitch up its bung hole and turn it loose to bloat up and die in the woods.
Then he threaded a curving needle and began to stitch up the deepest cut.
No sooner had he finished the incision and staunched the flow of blood than he began to stitch up the patient'.
He hired a tailor to stitch up the collar so close, that it was ready to choke him, and squeezed out his eyes at such a rate, as one could see nothing but the white.
Six fine needles, he promised her, if she'd stitch up something suitable.
A wound this deep would take a couple of months to heal fully, and in the meantime it would throb, and itch, and shoot the occasional stinging stitch up the leg.
Her ability to work with animals was innate, and she had absorbed a varied knowledge of medicine through her experiences, her skill being such that she had often been called on to aid in a difficult calving or stitch up a rent hide.
Just let the pairs of MEs come buzzing over for a jolly, stitch up the tarmac, and return to France.
They are terrified, their fingers twitching and shaking on the triggers of hand guns that are big enough to blow a hole in me no surgeon could ever stitch up.