mend

[Mend]

When you mend something, you fix it or make it better. If you can mend your broken lamp, then it will shine again. If not you'll have to sit in the dark.

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To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

Noun
the act of putting something in working order again

Noun
sewing or darning that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment); "her stockings had several mends"

Verb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"

Verb
heal or recover; "My broken leg is mending"


v. t.
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

v. t.
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.

v. t.
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.

v. i.
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.


Mend

Mend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mended; p. pr. & vb. n. Mending.] [Abbrev. fr. amend. See Amend.] 1. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine. 2. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
3. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
You mend the jewel by the wearing it.
Syn. -- To improve; help; better; emend; amend; correct; rectify; reform.

Mend

Mend, v. i. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved. Shak.

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

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Usage Examples

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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