mend

Meaning

1. To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
2. To add fuel to (a fire).
3. To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
4. To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
5. To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
6. 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).
7. To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
8. To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
9. To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
10. To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
11. (obsolete) To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
12. (obsolete) To put out (a candle).
13. (obsolete) To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
14. (obsolete) To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
15. (obsolete) To reform (oneself).
16. (obsolete) To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
17. (obsolete) To repair the clothes of (someone).
18. (obsolete) To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
19. (obsolete) Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
20. Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
21. Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
22. Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
23. To become morally improved or reformed.
24. (obsolete) Chiefly used together with make: to make repairs.
25. (obsolete) To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
26. (obsolete) To improve in amount or price.
27. (obsolete) Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
28. (obsolete) Followed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.
29. (obsolete) Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
30. (obsolete) To advantage, to avail, to help.

mend

repair

fix

patch

sew

darn

restore

correct

renovate

improve

heal

stitch

patch up

remedy

cobble

adjust

put right

continue

renew

rectify

recondition

splice

enhance

reparation

bushel

doctor

touch on

tidy up

unite

amend

ameliorate

recover

solder

vamp

furbish up

fixing

fixture

mending

treat

refit

meliorate

touch up

weave

arrange

prepare

correction

remake

repeat

whip up

trim

make embroidery

solder together

string then by splicing

develop

enrich

to be better

revise

clout

reform

cure

amendment

combine

improving

piece

close up

better oneself

emend

repairing

tinker

stir

seal

couple

join together

sew up

repair shoes

make good

hit

punch

make

set right

attach

stitch together

bay

berth

chair

filling

locale

location

locus

niche

place

point

position

seat

site

slot

spot

venue

darning

bounce back

convalesce

pull round

rally

explain

stick

make better

fix up

hem

perk

revive

overhaul

tinker with

remediate

right

renovation

do up

cement

cover with mud

grizzly bear

add to

make up

bare

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɛnd/

PIE word *h₁eǵʰs 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 ready; to mend, repair, restore; to get well, recover; to relieve”), or from its etymon Anglo-Norman amender and Old French amender (“to cure; to fix, repair; to set right, correct”) (modern French amender), from Latin ēmendāre, the present active infinitive of ēmendō (“to atone; to chastise, punish; to correct, remedy, amend; to cure”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mendum (“defect; error, fault”) (from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“defect; fault”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs).