to mend

Examples

• All

• I felt sorry for her, though, and I began to mend my ways after all.

  Fiction book (2001)

• So you finally decided to mend things, huh?

  A Second Chance (2019)

• If you don't mend your ways, you'll never be happy.

  The Blue Bird (1940)

• Has she shown any signs of mending her ways in these last idyllic three months?

  Sleuth (1972)

• After the surgery, she took time to rest so that her body could mend properly.

• The doctor assured me that my injury would mend in a few weeks with the right care.

• He was happy to see his friend mend from the illness that had kept him in bed for weeks.

Synonyms

R

to recover

vsto mend

748 2.5

Get back to a normal state after a loss, for example health or money

applies specifically to getting healthy again, not to regaining lost things

H

to heal

vsto mend

481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

is used mainly for physical health returning after harm

R

recovering

vsto mend

3.2

Getting better after an illness or operation

refers to the finished state of being healthy again rather than the ongoing process

Antonyms

W

to worsen

61 3.9

To make a situation or condition less good

I

to injure

53 1.6

Cause harm to people or things, for example to a company's good name

Idioms

O

on the mend

10 3.8

Getting better after illness, injury or hard times

M

to make do and mend

• Archaic

7.6

Use what you have and fix things instead of buying new ones

H

hell mend him

• Offensive

9.9

Showing no sympathy when someone suffers from their own choices

How Healed

to heal

481 1.2

to recover

748 2.5

to mend

37 1.5

to get better

573 1.0

to improve

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology