Dizionario
mend
Senso
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- 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.
- (obsolete) To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
- (obsolete) To put out (a candle).
- (obsolete) To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
- (obsolete) To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
- (obsolete) To reform (oneself).
- (obsolete) To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
- (obsolete) To repair the clothes of (someone).
- (obsolete) To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
- (obsolete) 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.
- Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
- Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
- To become morally improved or reformed.
- (obsolete) Chiefly used together with make: to make repairs.
- (obsolete) To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
- (obsolete) To improve in amount or price.
- (obsolete) Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
- (obsolete) Followed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.
- (obsolete) Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
- (obsolete) To advantage, to avail, to help.
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/mɛnd/
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Judge 🧑⚖️ and mend the schism in the Theosophical Movement .
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Giudicare e riparare lo scisma nel movimento teosofico.