patch up

Speech parts

1. patch up - Noun

2. patch up - Verb

Meaning

come to terms

mend by putting a patch on

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

patch-up

Synonyms

settle patch reconcile conciliate doctor right service square reassemble cobble correct improve restore smooth recover
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Antonyms

mar lower remain reduce damage break
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Hypernyms

concord doctor hold agree restore repair

Hyponyms

appease propitiate make-peace

Examples

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system. Bernard Crick

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own. Charles Churchill (satirist)

Patch up thine old body for heaven. William Shakespeare

After some discussion we finally made up Source: Internet

patch a hole Source: Internet

As a prototype Marxist intellectual Debord needed an ally who could patch up the petty egoisms and squabbles of the members. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

patch stage kaposi sarcoma patch test patch together patch up relationship patchability patchable