mend Definition

mend
verb mended, mending

1. To repair something.

Thesaurus: repair, fix, patch, remedy, cure, heal, amend, rectify; Antonym: break, destroy.
intr
2. To improve, especially in health; to heal or recover.
3. To improve or correct something.

Example: mend one's ways

noun

1. On a garment, etc: a repaired part or place.
2. An act of mending.

Derivative: mendable
adj

Derivative: mending

The act or process of repairing.

Articles that need to be mended, especially clothes.

Idiom: on the mend

Getting better, especially in health.
Thesaurus: improving, recuperating, healing, recovering, getting better, convalescent.

Etymology: 13c: shortened from amend.