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Definition of mend in English: mendverb mɛndmɛnd [with object]1Repair (something that is broken or damaged) workmen were mending faulty cabling Example sentencesExamples - The sergeant has come instead for a blacksmith who can promptly mend the broken cuffs so that they can be put to use this afternoon in the hunt for two escaped convicts.
- It was not easy to find people to mend your shoes, repair your broken zipper or anything else that might be of minor importance but that is necessary for daily life.
- He also took a gun home from the safe, ostensibly to mend it or repair it or something.
- When we got in Dad had put on a clean shirt and was mending the broken banister.
- Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
- Detached from our heads, hair can be used to mend garments, to darn holes in stockings.
- His wife, bent over his topcoat, pulled her needle in and out mending the latest damage to its right sleeve.
- Now, at aged 17 he mends, sells and upgrades computers for people in the store in Trowbridge.
- The pre-sea trawler course teaches participants how to mend nets, do repairs, and other basic skills required for work on deep-sea factory-freezer trawlers.
- The crucially important thing now is that whatever fences were damaged or knocked are mended and rebuilt, and that we get on with the forthcoming challenges with a united front.
- Once, he sashayed into a ladies room with her to help mend a broken spaghetti strap.
- If there are any savings, hopefully we will be able to spend it on mending more footpaths.
- Tom finished mending the broken circuitry, with me guiding him using the circuit map on a screen beside.
- Eventually my clothes were clean and dried and mended and returned.
- An elderly heart attack victim cannot use his emergency alarm because BT engineers told him it could take up to a week to mend a broken phone line.
- He and Marquis did a lot together, fixing broken pipes, mending the dock, and selling the lighthouse and fishing boat.
- We now start on the work of repair and refurbishment of pots and equipment, boats and engines, making and mending, cleaning and painting, there's no end to it - then the insurance - anyone want a job?
- She put both hands flat on her lap, then reached them up again to mend the damage she'd done to her hair.
- The faulty shearing machines are repaired, the broken cobbles are mended and the new by-pass built.
- In total £386,000 is needed to mend damage and work will be carried out in two parts.
Synonyms repair, fix, put back together, piece together, patch up, restore, sew (up), stitch, darn, patch, cobble, botch, vamp (up) rehabilitate, renew, renovate, redevelop, overhaul, recondition, rebuild, refurbish make whole, make well, cure, heal Northern English fettle, spetch Scottish & Northern English ranter archaic clout, tinker, beet - 1.1no object Return to health; heal.
foot injuries can take months to mend Example sentencesExamples - The song tells a story of recovering, of hiding from the world, mending.
- So when another scan 16 months after the fall showed the ligament had mended, he was quick to contemplate getting back in the saddle.
- She will have to return to Southampton General Hospital in December for further x-rays to see how the break is mending.
- Fractured vertebrae do heal, but they become compressed, and may mend in a wedge shape.
- The next day I was mending, though it took another two weeks to recover fully.
- I felt much better than I had earlier that day, my bones mending and bruises healing.
- Her shoulder was mending, but it was a slow process.
- A technique called pulse magnetic therapy is used to heal broken bones that won't mend under plaster, and it has also been shown to help with arthritis.
- A father-of-three still in hospital almost three months after cheating death in a horrific car smash has been told it will be two years before his broken body is mended.
- Mr Cobb was told that three-year-old Jenny had broken a joint in her right back leg, which had mended but not been set properly, and as a result she had a limp.
- His two broken ribs had been mended, but were still weak and sore.
- She hadn't even got out of bed when we arrived and so we left her to get herself mended and wandered off, in a dizzy haze towards the Putney Embankment.
Synonyms get better, get well, recover, be on the road to recovery, pull through, recuperate, convalesce, improve, be well, be cured, be all right, heal, knit, draw together - 1.2 Improve (an unpleasant situation)
quarrels could be mended by talking Example sentencesExamples - The play, she hoped, could serve as a mirror for us to see our own reflection, which eventually, might mend the broken love between us.
- He did not mend his ways and the result of that failing was catastrophic.
- No law that attempts to mend the damage from the breakdown of a family will fit each family's circumstance perfectly.
- To mend the situation Dr. Morrow suggests that each partner demonstrate how important the relationship is by making changes in behavior such as putting each other first and the family second.
- Almost like magic, apology has the power to repair harm, mend relationships, soothe wounds and heal broken hearts.
- An apology not only opens up the opportunity to mend relational breakdowns, it has the potential to release amazing healing energies.
- California went through all this many years ago, and is still paying for it and trying to mend the damage its water diversion schemes have created.
- He hoped she would go back with him and give him a chance to mend the differences between them, if he could only figure them out.
- He cut taxes, took the first steps towards mending the broken pension system, and encouraged the immigration of workers with needed skills.
- I will take a sensitivity training class and attempt to mend my chauvinistic ways.
- The Supreme Court has also threatened that if the state government does not mend its ways these cases may be transferred to courts outside the state.
- The hospital needs to focus instead, he said, on mending its various departments - and on improving service to emergency-room patients.
- The project may also include attempts to mend frayed relations between management and employees.
- Mark visited David in an attempt to mend his rift with Stephanie before leaving town.
- ‘We realize that our mistakes have placed us in a complicated situation, therefore we wish to mend it,’ Endriartono said.
- Drastic decisions should essentially be avoided unless you have done everything you sincerely feel you should have in order to mend the adverse situation.
- But the real question is, ‘How do you mend a broken heart?’
- She was in inescapable misery and I knew what that was like; not for the same reasons, but to be in a situation that would never mend itself, no matter what you did or how hard you tried to think a way out of it.
- That he didn't see the opportunity to mend some of the wounds he has created and allowed to fester is a failure of leadership so profound that I wonder if it may not define his presidency.
- This is a kind of a ‘repair’ effort to mend conflict.
Synonyms put/set right, set straight, make up, straighten out, sort out, put in order, rectify, remedy, right, redress, resolve, square, settle, put to rights, correct, amend, emend, retrieve, improve, make better, better, make good, ameliorate, reform
2Add fuel to (a fire) he mended the fire and turned the meat on the greenwood racks Example sentencesExamples - When he mended the fire in the big living room, he would linger as long as he could beside the glowing coals, for although the fire burnt all day, the rest of the room remained cold.
- He put a big pot on, mended the fire, and lit his pipe.
Synonyms stoke (up), make up, charge, fuel
noun mɛndmɛnd A repair in a material. the mend was barely visible Example sentencesExamples - There is a mend in the seam section on the bias and the seam running underneath the bust needs some stitch re-enforcement.
- Subsequently, the mend in the fabric had parted and the rent now revealed a knee with well-preserved skin covering some musculature.
- A devout cowboy lost his favourite Bible while he was mending fences out on the range.
Phrases from the fact that I wasn't instantly told to mend my manners, I knew she felt guilty Example sentencesExamples - I told him I'd leave him if he didn't mend his manners, and he wouldn't; so I left him.
- The naughty pair have been banished to the nursery to learn a Bible verse for repentance, and Tabby to the cellar to mend her manners.
- If he would mend his manners the man would soon understand him and reform his own.
- His friends in Philadelphia, Adams told his wife,’ send me kind messages to inform me that unless I mend my manners, I shall never be President.
- He went to Rome to atone but did not mend his manners.
Improve one's habits or behaviour. she told Vincent to clear out of the house if he couldn't mend his ways Example sentencesExamples - Those who refuse to mend their ways could be fined if their children do not show up at school.
- I hope they will choose to mend their ways rather than pay the fixed penalty fines that we will certainly impose.
- He was released on appeal after less than a year and claimed to have mended his ways, taking a college art course.
- He is humble, certainly, but has he mended his ways?
- He had also been convicted twice before for drink-driving, so he had ample opportunities to mend his ways.
- Consumers in those countries can point to good repayment records after a default to show they have mended their ways.
- The player himself realised that if he didn't mend his ways quickly, his international career might well be over.
- Those who failed to mend their ways and continued to disrupt their communities with noise, vandalism and harassment might face eviction.
- I urge people not to buy goods from these companies until they mend their ways.
- The rest need to try that bit harder to keep their properties and the area around them in good order in the hope of shaming the scruffy minority into mending their ways.
Synonyms mend one's ways, change for the better, change completely, make a fresh start, turn over a new leaf, become a new person, reconstruct oneself, improve, go straight, get back on the straight and narrow
Improving in health or condition; recovering. the economy is on the mend Example sentencesExamples - Now that the economy appears to be on the mend, productivity is in the air again.
- Your health will be on the mend; those who are still ill will be well-looked after.
- Peel said: ‘Nicky is back home now and though she is still confined to bed, she is on the mend and Noel is at home looking after her.’
- I sincerely hope that her health is finally on the mend.
- He is on the mend (they just took him off the respirator) but he has a ways to go before he'll be off the disabled list and able to draw again.
- The ability of companies to raise prices will stoke earnings, a signal that the economy is on the mend, and stocks could climb higher.
- Everyone was ill but the baby, although we're now on the mend.
- But owner Andy Robin managed to bring him round after intensive therapy sessions, including swimming, and it was believed the bear was on the mend.
- But fortunately I'm on the mend now (subject to occasional queasiness).
- And yes, manufacturers' fortunes are on the mend, but few besides airplane makers are celebrating.
Synonyms recovering, convalescent, on the road to recovery, making progress, progressing, improving
dated Go faster; alter one's pace to match a companion. Example sentencesExamples - We thus came out upon the main ridge, where a casual glance at the communal watch showed us that if we wished to get within striking distance of our summit we should have to mend our pace.
- James, being ambitious to mend his pace, tugged hard at the rein, and one of his rider's boots escaped from the stirrup.
- As soon as Constantine heard of their departure, he sent a chiding letter to Mahan, and bade him mend his pace.
- The train was still moving slowly, although beginning to mend her pace, and the drunkard got his feet without a fall.
- But they are a’ away to their dinner to the change-house, and if we dinna mend our pace, we'll come short at meal-time.’
Derivatives adjective It may even, and here I am speculating, herald the beginning of a party rift that may still prove not to be mendable. Example sentencesExamples - A pit in the Panayia field, west of the long sixth-century building, yielded a large quantity of mendable pottery including a wide variety of amphoras.
- In recent years, materials scientists have been trying to emulate this capability by developing synthetic self-healing or easily mendable materials for products ranging from aerospace parts to athletic gear.
- Occasionally a couple of gentlemen have appealed for old, obsolete or broken but mendable woodworking tools.
- Let Lancelot carry her off while they can still leave Arthur's heart broken but mendable.
noun ˈmɛndəˈmɛndər The quote was based on photographs taken of the cloak, as Steinhauser would not allow Graham to take the cloak to the menders, based in London. Example sentencesExamples - Writers, actors, radio presenters, road menders… and we all convened at his at half seven - just in time to head off again in the cars and get lost between there and a restaurant a mile away.
- The body mender: pain is the enemy, and one physical therapist is getting his hands on finding a cure for the common ache
- A skilful patient mender will repair the cloth so that you simply cannot see where the hole was.
- The road menders provide an example of how the citizens of Nowhere might come to volunteer for arduous but necessary labour and even find pleasure in it.
Origin Middle English: shortening of amend. Even though it is found slightly earlier, mend is thought to be a shortening of amend, which along with emend are recorded within a few years of each other. They all go back to Latin emendare ‘to free from faults, correct’.
Rhymes amend, append, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, bend, blend, blende, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defriend, depend, emend, end, expend, extend, fend, forfend, friend, impend, interdepend, lend, misapprehend, misspend, offend, on-trend, Oostende, Ostend, perpend, portend, rend, reprehend, scrag-end, send, spend, subtend, suspend, tail end, tend, transcend, trend, underspend, unfriend, upend, vend, weekend, wend Definition of mend in US English: mendverbmɛndmend [with object]1Repair (something that is broken or damaged) workmen were mending faulty cabling a patch was used to mend the garment Example sentencesExamples - The crucially important thing now is that whatever fences were damaged or knocked are mended and rebuilt, and that we get on with the forthcoming challenges with a united front.
- Once, he sashayed into a ladies room with her to help mend a broken spaghetti strap.
- An elderly heart attack victim cannot use his emergency alarm because BT engineers told him it could take up to a week to mend a broken phone line.
- Detached from our heads, hair can be used to mend garments, to darn holes in stockings.
- He and Marquis did a lot together, fixing broken pipes, mending the dock, and selling the lighthouse and fishing boat.
- She put both hands flat on her lap, then reached them up again to mend the damage she'd done to her hair.
- We now start on the work of repair and refurbishment of pots and equipment, boats and engines, making and mending, cleaning and painting, there's no end to it - then the insurance - anyone want a job?
- Now, at aged 17 he mends, sells and upgrades computers for people in the store in Trowbridge.
- It was not easy to find people to mend your shoes, repair your broken zipper or anything else that might be of minor importance but that is necessary for daily life.
- The pre-sea trawler course teaches participants how to mend nets, do repairs, and other basic skills required for work on deep-sea factory-freezer trawlers.
- If there are any savings, hopefully we will be able to spend it on mending more footpaths.
- In total £386,000 is needed to mend damage and work will be carried out in two parts.
- Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
- His wife, bent over his topcoat, pulled her needle in and out mending the latest damage to its right sleeve.
- Eventually my clothes were clean and dried and mended and returned.
- When we got in Dad had put on a clean shirt and was mending the broken banister.
- Tom finished mending the broken circuitry, with me guiding him using the circuit map on a screen beside.
- He also took a gun home from the safe, ostensibly to mend it or repair it or something.
- The faulty shearing machines are repaired, the broken cobbles are mended and the new by-pass built.
- The sergeant has come instead for a blacksmith who can promptly mend the broken cuffs so that they can be put to use this afternoon in the hunt for two escaped convicts.
Synonyms repair, fix, put back together, piece together, patch up, restore, sew, sew up, stitch, darn, patch, cobble, botch, vamp, vamp up - 1.1no object Return to health; heal.
foot injuries can take months to mend Example sentencesExamples - His two broken ribs had been mended, but were still weak and sore.
- A technique called pulse magnetic therapy is used to heal broken bones that won't mend under plaster, and it has also been shown to help with arthritis.
- A father-of-three still in hospital almost three months after cheating death in a horrific car smash has been told it will be two years before his broken body is mended.
- So when another scan 16 months after the fall showed the ligament had mended, he was quick to contemplate getting back in the saddle.
- She will have to return to Southampton General Hospital in December for further x-rays to see how the break is mending.
- The next day I was mending, though it took another two weeks to recover fully.
- The song tells a story of recovering, of hiding from the world, mending.
- Her shoulder was mending, but it was a slow process.
- Mr Cobb was told that three-year-old Jenny had broken a joint in her right back leg, which had mended but not been set properly, and as a result she had a limp.
- Fractured vertebrae do heal, but they become compressed, and may mend in a wedge shape.
- She hadn't even got out of bed when we arrived and so we left her to get herself mended and wandered off, in a dizzy haze towards the Putney Embankment.
- I felt much better than I had earlier that day, my bones mending and bruises healing.
Synonyms get better, get well, recover, be on the road to recovery, pull through, recuperate, convalesce, improve, be well, be cured, be all right, heal, knit, draw together - 1.2 Improve (an unpleasant situation, especially a disagreement)
quarrels could be mended by talking Example sentencesExamples - Drastic decisions should essentially be avoided unless you have done everything you sincerely feel you should have in order to mend the adverse situation.
- Mark visited David in an attempt to mend his rift with Stephanie before leaving town.
- He hoped she would go back with him and give him a chance to mend the differences between them, if he could only figure them out.
- The project may also include attempts to mend frayed relations between management and employees.
- He cut taxes, took the first steps towards mending the broken pension system, and encouraged the immigration of workers with needed skills.
- He did not mend his ways and the result of that failing was catastrophic.
- She was in inescapable misery and I knew what that was like; not for the same reasons, but to be in a situation that would never mend itself, no matter what you did or how hard you tried to think a way out of it.
- ‘We realize that our mistakes have placed us in a complicated situation, therefore we wish to mend it,’ Endriartono said.
- That he didn't see the opportunity to mend some of the wounds he has created and allowed to fester is a failure of leadership so profound that I wonder if it may not define his presidency.
- No law that attempts to mend the damage from the breakdown of a family will fit each family's circumstance perfectly.
- California went through all this many years ago, and is still paying for it and trying to mend the damage its water diversion schemes have created.
- This is a kind of a ‘repair’ effort to mend conflict.
- The Supreme Court has also threatened that if the state government does not mend its ways these cases may be transferred to courts outside the state.
- Almost like magic, apology has the power to repair harm, mend relationships, soothe wounds and heal broken hearts.
- But the real question is, ‘How do you mend a broken heart?’
- To mend the situation Dr. Morrow suggests that each partner demonstrate how important the relationship is by making changes in behavior such as putting each other first and the family second.
- I will take a sensitivity training class and attempt to mend my chauvinistic ways.
- The hospital needs to focus instead, he said, on mending its various departments - and on improving service to emergency-room patients.
- An apology not only opens up the opportunity to mend relational breakdowns, it has the potential to release amazing healing energies.
- The play, she hoped, could serve as a mirror for us to see our own reflection, which eventually, might mend the broken love between us.
Synonyms put right, set right, set straight, make up, straighten out, sort out, put in order, rectify, remedy, right, redress, resolve, square, settle, put to rights, correct, amend, emend, retrieve, improve, make better, better, make good, ameliorate, reform
nounmɛndmend A repair in a material. the mends were so perfect you could not even tell the board had been damaged Example sentencesExamples - There is a mend in the seam section on the bias and the seam running underneath the bust needs some stitch re-enforcement.
- Subsequently, the mend in the fabric had parted and the rent now revealed a knee with well-preserved skin covering some musculature.
- A devout cowboy lost his favourite Bible while he was mending fences out on the range.
Phrases Make peace with a person. is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife? Example sentencesExamples - It is crucial at such times of crisis to take the steps necessary to mend fences, solidify ranks and do whatever else is needed to tighten up the ship against the current storm.
- Surely it is time now to mend fences and initiate policies geared to the good of the game, as it faces into an era of unparalleled opportunity.
- By working together to preserve their common ecological heritage, there's hope the countries can also mend fences over their political and cultural differences.
- Now he is back, mending fences and building a power base.
- What is your candidate going to do to try and mend fences between those fault lines, or conversely, is it more expeditious, politically, to exploit those fault lines?
- The two have also agreed to mend fences and have an amicable relation-ship after nine months of bitterness.
- I mean, some of the things we talked about tonight, which is trying to get people to mend fences and work together.
- Long after I had decided I really didn't need to have her in my life, she decided she'd quite like me in hers, and made a sincere, tactful and very generous effort to mend fences.
- But I think what is very clear, according to people I talked to today, is that they have been attempting to mend fences with him.
- First he has mended his fences with Miss Maisey and they are now living together as a family.
Synonyms be friends again, bury the hatchet, declare a truce, make peace, forgive and forget, shake hands, become reconciled, settle one's differences, mend fences, call it quits
Improve one's habits or behavior. Example sentencesExamples - Consumers in those countries can point to good repayment records after a default to show they have mended their ways.
- He is humble, certainly, but has he mended his ways?
- The player himself realised that if he didn't mend his ways quickly, his international career might well be over.
- He had also been convicted twice before for drink-driving, so he had ample opportunities to mend his ways.
- He was released on appeal after less than a year and claimed to have mended his ways, taking a college art course.
- Those who failed to mend their ways and continued to disrupt their communities with noise, vandalism and harassment might face eviction.
- The rest need to try that bit harder to keep their properties and the area around them in good order in the hope of shaming the scruffy minority into mending their ways.
- I hope they will choose to mend their ways rather than pay the fixed penalty fines that we will certainly impose.
- Those who refuse to mend their ways could be fined if their children do not show up at school.
- I urge people not to buy goods from these companies until they mend their ways.
Synonyms mend one's ways, change for the better, change completely, make a fresh start, turn over a new leaf, become a new person, reconstruct oneself, improve, go straight, get back on the straight and narrow
Improving in health or condition; recovering. the economy is on the mend on the mend after a stomach operation Example sentencesExamples - I sincerely hope that her health is finally on the mend.
- The ability of companies to raise prices will stoke earnings, a signal that the economy is on the mend, and stocks could climb higher.
- Now that the economy appears to be on the mend, productivity is in the air again.
- But owner Andy Robin managed to bring him round after intensive therapy sessions, including swimming, and it was believed the bear was on the mend.
- And yes, manufacturers' fortunes are on the mend, but few besides airplane makers are celebrating.
- He is on the mend (they just took him off the respirator) but he has a ways to go before he'll be off the disabled list and able to draw again.
- Peel said: ‘Nicky is back home now and though she is still confined to bed, she is on the mend and Noel is at home looking after her.’
- Everyone was ill but the baby, although we're now on the mend.
- But fortunately I'm on the mend now (subject to occasional queasiness).
- Your health will be on the mend; those who are still ill will be well-looked after.
Synonyms recovering, convalescent, on the road to recovery, making progress, progressing, improving
Origin Middle English: shortening of amend. |