Mend

Quick meaning: Mend is a verb meaning To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).

Meaning

To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).

More Meanings

1. To add fuel to (a fire).
2. To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
3. To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
4. To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
5. To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
6. To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
7. 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).

Example Sentences

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

He mended the fire and turned the meat on the greenwood racks.

When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.

[A] fellow mending the tiles just when the fire broke out, saw a pot with wildfire in the room.

Word Forms

• mends
• mending
• mended
• mendest
• mendedst
• mendeth

Synonyms for mend

Depending on context, synonyms include amend, correct, fix, fix up, furbish, retrieve.

Antonyms for mend

Common opposites include break, bust.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include repair, heal, restore, patch, fix, bushel.

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