mend
Pronunciation: /mɛnd/
The English word “mend” has 20 meanings listed here.
verb
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- 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).
- To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
- To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
- To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
- To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
- To put out (a candle).
- To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
- To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
- To reform (oneself).
- To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
- To repair the clothes of (someone).
- To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
- Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
Etymology
From Middle English menden (“to cure; to do good to, benefit; to do or make better, improve; to get better, recover; to keep in a good state; to put right, amend; to reform, repent”), the aphetic form of amenden (“to alter, change (especially for the better); to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure; to excel, surpass; to forgive; to get or make better, improve; to make…
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