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🩹 Mended with fabric 🟫 With spots 💻 Updated or fixed
patched

patched

3.7
Someone fixes it by putting a piece of cloth over a hole or tear
  • adjective
  • /pætʃt/
translation icon : remendado
  • Her jeans were patched at the knees after years of use.

And we could have picked so many other things, you know, a piece of, of clothing that sooner or later patched up is going to wear out.

Examples

  • Look at the patched hole in the fence!

  • He wore his old patched jacket to the workshop.

  • The patched quilt had been in her family for generations.

  • She wore a patched jacket that looked vintage.

  • She proudly displayed her patched jeans that showed off her unique style.

  • His favorite shirt was an old patched garment with many memories attached.

  • The patched carpet in the living room was a testament to years of family gatherings.

Synonyms

darned
vspatched
1 4.2

Sewn to fix a hole in clothes like socks

is done by covering a hole with a separate often visible roughly applied piece

Antonyms

unpatched
5.5

A piece of clothing that has a tear or hole not mended

How Repaired

to restore
219 3.5
repair
352 2.3
patched
3.7
taped
1.1

Surface Forms

patched positive

Morphology

patched = patch (transparent) = patch + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'patch' meaning 'mended by applying a patch', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Patched comes from the simple noun patch, which originally meant 'a small piece of cloth' used to cover a hole. So a patched jacket is one that has been mended by putting a piece of cloth over a tear.