mend
(mĕnd)
[Middle English menden, short for amenden, to amend; see amend.]
verb: mend·ed, mend·ing, mends.
transitive verb
- To make repairs or restoration to; fix.
- To reform or correct: mend one's ways.
intransitive verb
- To improve in health or condition: The patient is mending well.
- To heal: The bone mended in a month.
- To make repairs or corrections.
noun
- The act of mending: did a neat mend on the sock.
- A mended place: You can't tell where the mend is.
idioms
- mend fences
- To improve poor relations, especially in politics: “Whatever thoughts he may have entertained about mending some fences with were banished” (Conor Cruise O'Brien)
- on the mend
- Improving, especially in health.
derivatives
- mend́a·ble
- adjective
- mend́er
- noun
