Word Finder - mended

definition

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.

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My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.

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To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.

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Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.

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

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

He baked, cooked, sewed, planed, and mended boots.

It pulled her from the darkness and mended her body.

Jenn gritted her teeth against it as her body mended itself.

The Wizard opened his satchel and got out some sticking-plaster with which he mended the cuts Jim had received from the claws of the bears.

But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence.

I am thankfully ensconced in my perfect house on wheels, mended in body but seething in mind.

Matters, however, were not really mended, and in 1884 a royal commission reported upon the condition of the crofters of the islands and mainland.

Denisov, who was living luxuriously because the soldiers of his squadron liked him, had also a board in the roof at the farther end, with a piece of (broken but mended) glass in it for a window.

People wore simple clothes, mended them repeatedly, and only bought something new when the old material fell apart.

Matters could only be mended by the exercise of legislative authority, and this came in the Prison Act of 1865, an act which consolidated all previous statutes on the subject of prison discipline, many of its provisions being still in force.

However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and returned to the woods in season to get my dinner of huckleberries on Fair Haven Hill.

Pierre, girt with a rope round his waist and wearing shoes Karataev had made for him from some leather a French soldier had torn off a tea chest and brought to have his boots mended with, went up to the sick man and squatted down beside him.

On the contrary, he mended his relationship and continued his affair.

The enemy invariably dispersed before superior forces, and the removal of the women and children from the farms did not have the effect of disheartening the burghers as had been anticipated - it rather mended their vitality by relieving them of responsibility for their families' welfare.

Some thought they slid like solids; others that they flowed like liquids; others that they crawled by alternate expansion and contraction, or by alternate freezing and melting; others, again, that they broke and mended.

Julie has mended well and accepting a raspy speech suffers no permanent damage.

After a bracing dram 3 sea trout and a mended salmon Kelt were caught and returned.

Teacher mended the broken lyre of my life and gave me mental concepts to replace sight and hearing.

They are often in good condition and can be very well mended and becoming very silver once again.

Consider using cutter quilts, old quilts that are too torn up to be mended.

Weisse; but, whereas Weisse thought that the Hegelian structure was sound in the main, and that its imperfections might be mended, Fichte held it to be incurably defective, and spoke of it as a "masterpiece of erroneous consistency or consistent error."

You will be restored, your transgression forgiven, the disgrace undone, and your life quite mended up again.

If it's a fine garment, it can and should be mended - there are plenty of specialists who will fix your cardigan and have it looking new again in no time.

Throughout this roller coaster of emotions and business complications, Paul Jr. and his father argued and mended fences many times.

Only recently, most of the pages at the Voices Forum website had to be " mended " to avoid search engine oblivion!

Similar spraying is recom- (From a specimen in the British Museum.) mended for pear-leaf blister Pear Scab (Fusicladium pyrinum).