Mend

What do we mean by mend?

To make repairs or restoration to; fix. intransitive verb

To reform or correct. intransitive verb

To improve in health or condition. intransitive verb

To heal. intransitive verb

To make repairs or corrections. intransitive verb

The act of mending. noun

A mended place. noun

(mend fences) To improve poor relations, especially in politics. idiom

(on the mend) Improving, especially in health. idiom

Amendment; improvement; course of improvement; way to recoversy: as, to be on the mend (said especially of a person recovering from illness). noun

To repair, as something broken, defaced, deranged, or worn; make whole or fit for use; restore to a sound or serviceable condition: as, to mend shoes or clothes, a wall or a road.

To correct or reform; make or set right; bring to a proper state or condition: as, to mend one's ways, health, or fortune; that will not mend the matter.

To improve; make better in any way; help, further, better, advance in value or consideration, etc.

To improve upon; add to; surpass or outdo: as, to mend one's shot (that is, to make a better one).

To grow or do better; improve; act or behave better.

To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved; to recover; to heal. intransitive verb

Recovering from an illness or injury. intransitive verb

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create. transitive verb

To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken. transitive verb

A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.

The act of repairing.

Words that are spelled similarly to mend:
mend.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word mend:
fences, gees, rift, gibb, niger, nigerian, indochina, misery, broken, estranged, ways, libretto, strained, kidnapped, amnesty, sailors, relationship, friendship, tunisia, bee, militant, ois, stealing, pipeline, algeria, relations, heart, pierre, wounds, delta, france, argentine, clothes, radical, ren, oil, nigeria, relationships, repair, lucas, ties, clothing, attacked, carrier, bridges, your, robin, coup, mar, asks, shell.

Words that rhyme with mend:
end, bend, friend, lend, attend, amend, trend, recommend, contend, extend, spend, transcend, send, tend, blend, commend, portend, comprehend, intend, pretend, apprehend, append, suspend, descend, condescend, offend, dividend, depend, expend, ascend, defend, unbend, fend, weekend, wend, befriend, godsend, impend, misspend, overspend, outspend, penned, distend, girlfriend, abend, bookend, boyfriend, yearend, back end, scend, dead end, denned, yenned, rear end, shend, downtrend, overextend, pitchblende, mende, bitter end, hornblende, front end, tail end, blende, backend, uptrend, reoffend, ende, best friend, in the end, fag end, arend, tight end, hende, kenned, loose end, tag end, wende, west end, exboyfriend, without end, split end, no end, sheet bend, butt end, townshend, lady friend, hind end, wallsend, becket bend, riverbend, gable end, carrick bend, rende, extra dividend, next friend, equalizing dividend, stock dividend, landsend, goodfriend.

Adjectives that are often used to describe mend:
old, late, dear, good, best, bad, young, upstream, intimate, and, mess, broken, true, close, rapid, invisible, magic, personal, faithful, nebi, quick, big, noble, unhappy, scarce, mutual, experimental, affectionate, slow, dead, 100th, perfect, safe, excellent, pseudo, deceased, beloved, temporary, absent, recom.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective mend:
mess, fig, operation, protokoll, project.

Consonant match to mend:
mind, mound, monde, manned, mined, mende, maund, maned, mooned, mande, mund, moaned.

Words that sound like mend:
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