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To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
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To add fuel to (a fire).
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To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
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To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
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To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
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In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
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To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
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To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
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To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
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To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
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To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
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To put out (a candle).
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To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
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To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
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To reform (oneself).
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To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
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To repair the clothes of (someone).
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To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
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Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
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Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
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Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
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Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
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To become morally improved or reformed.
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Chiefly used together with make: to make repairs.
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To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
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To improve in amount or price.
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Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
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Followed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.
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Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
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To advantage, to avail, to help.