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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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"Mend" Quotes from Famous Books

... where he was lodging to the summit of the wide stretch of common land on the western side of which lay Great End Farm. Half way up a long hill, he came upon a young man in uniform, disconsolately kneeling beside a bicycle which he seemed to be vainly trying to mend. As Delane came up with him, he looked up and asked for a light. Delane produced a match, and the young man, by the help of it, inspected ...

— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... happened that the King's harper, namely Craftiny, broke the straining-post of his harp and went out to seek for a piece of wood wherewith to mend it. And the first timber he found that would fit the purpose was the willow-tree by the cross roads. He cut it down, therefore, and took as much as would give him a new straining-post, and he bore it home with him and mended his harp with ...

— The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland • T. W. Rolleston

... mean to tell me?' asked Mab, 'that that big burly scarecrow, about to mend a gigantic quill with a ...

— 'That Very Mab' • May Kendall and Andrew Lang

... business," answered Aunt Faith, curtly, but not crossly. "You'll find somebody to do for, if you look out. If your mother's willing, though, you might mend up one of your old school dresses for her. 'Tisn't likely she's got anything to begin with." And so saying, Aunt Faith turned precipitately into a drygoods store, where she bought a large plaid woolen shawl, and twelve yards of dark ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... few days I shall live in the most beautiful part of the world. Sea, mountains... whatever you wish. We are to have our quarters in an old, vast, abandoned and ruined monastery of Carthusians whom Mend [FOOTNOTE: Mendizabal] drove away as it were for me. Near Palma—nothing more wonderful: cloisters, most poetic cemeteries. In short, I feel that there it will be well with me. Only the piano has not yet come! I wrote to Pleyel. Ask there and tell ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

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