Mend
[mend] or [mɛnd]
Definition
(noun.) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment); 'her stockings had several mends'.
(verb.) heal or recover; 'My broken leg is mending'.
Inputed by Darlene--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
(v. t.) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
(v. i.) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
Typist: Pearl
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Repair, refit, retouch, patch up, touch up.[2]. Improve, ameliorate, meliorate, correct, rectify, reform, amend, emend, make better.
v. n. Improve, amend, become better.
Editor: Pasquale
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Repair, restore, correct, promote, improve, rectify, reform, amend, ameliorate,better
ANT:Damage, impair, pervert, retard, deteriorate, falsify, spoil, corrupt
Checker: Myrna
Definition
v.t. to remove a fault: to repair as something broken or worn: to make better: to correct improve.—v.i. to grow better.—ns. Mend′er one who mends; Mend′ing the act of repairing: things requiring to be mended.
Edited by Flo
Examples
- I am too old to mend. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He'll get wus nor oneasy, one of these days, if he don't mend his ways. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My friends,' Stephen began, in the midst of a dead calm; 'I ha' hed what's been spok'n o' me, and 'tis lickly that I shan't mend it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Ivanhoe, extricating himself from his fallen horse, was soon on foot, hastening to mend his fortune with his sword; but his antagonist arose not. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She does her own hair, and I am teaching her to make buttonholes and mend her stockings. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thank you--but I always mend my own. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I mend pens remarkably well. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But the world is not to be mended by merely regarding evil-doers with an expression of rather undiscriminating disapproval. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Principles and opinions they possessed which could not be mended. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am frightfully confused regarding time and place; but I am so far mended as to feel that. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Wet the cork in the vial and with it wet the edges of the place to be mended. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If he attempts to sell them much dearer, he is likely to have so few customers, that his circumstances will not be much mended. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Now it has, you see, been twice mended, once in the wooden stem and once in the amber. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mrs Clennam and Jeremiah had exchanged a look; and had then looked, and looked still, at Affery, who sat mending the stocking with great assiduity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You've got no call to come an' talk about sticks o' these primises, as you woon't give a stick tow'rt mending. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, it's all arranged,' said Lowten, mending his pen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Thank God he is mending. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She had done my mending and was a very short dumpy, happy-faced woman with white hair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I agreed to do his washing and mending, but he forgets to give out his things and I forget to look them over, so he comes to a sad pass sometimes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- One of them went to inquire for the captain, to learn what orders he wished to give for mending the well-tackle. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Each of these mends, done, as you observe, with silver bands, must have cost more than the pipe did originally. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Walter