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verb

Mend v. t. (past & past part. mended; pres. part. mending)

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 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."

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."

Synonyms: To improve; help; better; emend; amend; correct; rectify; reform.

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

on the mend pred. a. recovering from an illness or injury.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mending" Quotes from Famous Books

... mending than I am," said Macnab to the Indian. "Set to work on the shoe when the camp is dug out, an' ...

— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne

... and phosphorus-boxes, and they attend chapel every Sunday:—if occupation can help them, sure they have enough of it. Was it not a great stroke of the legislature to superintend the morals and linen at once, and thus keep these poor creatures continually mending?—But we have passed the prison long ago, and are at the Porte St. ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... champion of monasticism would acknowledge that in the reign of Henry VIII. there was at least a plausible case for mending monastic morals. But that was not then the desire of the Government of Henry VIII.; and the case for mending their morals was tacitly assumed to be the same as a case for ending the monasteries. It would be ...

— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard

... is at the rate of about $12.90 and $21.50, gold, materially less than there is paid per month in the United States. At Tsingtao in the Shantung province a missionary was paying a Chinese cook ten dollars per month, a man for general work nine dollars per month, and the cook's wife, for doing the mending and other family service, two dollars per month, all living at home and feeding themselves. This service rendered for $9.03, gold, per month covers the marketing, all care of the garden and lawn as well as all the work in the ...

— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King

... make a man. It is said that the violin-makers in distant lands, by breaking and mending with skilful hands, at last produce instruments having a more wonderful capacity than ever was possible to them when new, unbroken and whole. Whether this be true or not of violins, it certainly is true of ...

— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

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