mend
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3.0
- noun
- /mɛnd/
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arreglo
- Zac is well on the mend from his surgery.
- mend fences
We're just putting it in this soil again, is probably not my best quality soil, but again, it's one of those just a mend over time type of things.
- We're just putting it in this soil again, is probably not my best quality soil, but again, it's one of those just a mend over time type of things.
Examples
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I am still on the mend but slowly coming back into the land of the living.
Blog text (11) -
Trousers with a mend in the knee, and long hair, almost over your ears.
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Anyway, good to see you on the mend.
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Now that Trent is on the mend, we can talk about moving forward with the show.
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Liberia is slowly on the mend, but we still have a long, long way to go.
Blog text (23) -
I was so happy to hear that Robert was on the mend, and that he and Stubby were reunited.
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Frank's aunt is on the mend, and Frank is taking a house in Highbury.
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The fever finally broke, and after a fortnight of suffering, Claude's hand was clearly on the mend.
Fiction book (1992) -
I think she's on the mend now—missed a week of school, but hopefully the worst is over.
Blog text (6) -
The tailor showed me how to make a simple mend on my torn shirt.
Synonyms
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2.3
Work done to fix something that is broken
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1.0
An action that makes something work again
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1.9
Repairing something to make it work again
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1.6
The act of fixing clothes or pieces of cloth that need repair
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6.5
Fixing something so it works again
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2.3
The act of mending a hole in clothes by sewing a piece of fabric over it
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3.4
A small job to make something look or work better
A repair made by sewing over a hole in clothing
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Etymology
Mend as a noun comes from the same old English verb mendan, meaning 'to make whole' or 'fix', and it names the repair itself. So a 'mend' on a shirt is the repair that makes the cloth whole again.