mend

Speech parts

1. mend - Noun

2. mend - Verb

Meaning

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.

To help, to advance, to further; to add to.

To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

doctor better correct reform restore repair fix patch heal fixing amend reparation rectify mending darn
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Antonyms

jimmy palmyra pierce mar rana lance
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Hypernyms

better improve improvement amend sewing ameliorate

Hyponyms

point sole cobble vamp tinker care

Phrases with the word

mend fences on the mend bellows to mend be on the mend mend with scotch tape try to mend

Derivatives

mended mending

Anagrams

mden

Examples

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. William Penn

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. Jane Austen

There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Kate DiCamillo

It's never too late to mend. English Proverb

If people come together, they can even mend a crack in the sky. Somali Proverb

First mend yourself, and then mend others. Jewish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Menckenesque Menckenian Menckenism mend fences mend invisibly mend with scotch tape