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Synonyms for mend
mɛndmend
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
mend
To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.
Synonyms:
advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform, repairAntonyms:
aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate
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Princeton's WordNet
mend, patch, darnnoun
sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
"her stockings had several mends"
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reparation, speckle, fixing, eyepatch, patch, dapple, spell, fleck, red cent, fixture, temporary hookup, shit, hoot, tinker's damn, repair, plot, maculation, fix, tinker's dam, bandage, piece, plot of ground, while, damn, plot of land, mending, shucks, spot, darnrepair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparationverb
the act of putting something in working order again
Synonyms:
darn, stamping ground, haunt, neutering, locating, hole, fastener, holdfast, fixedness, fix, fixation, jam, fixture, localisation, hangout, fixing, location, mending, habitue, altering, amends, fastening, kettle of fish, fastness, resort, mess, repair, secureness, regular, localization, pickle, fixity, muddle, reparation, patchrepair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch onverb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
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touch, furbish up, cook, desexualise, sterilize, ready, concern, prepare, get, set up, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, secure, pertain, sterilise, gear up, impact, regenerate, vivify, amend, situate, have-to doe with, heal, make, fasten, determine, renovate, bushel, desexualize, reestablish, define, specify, rejuvenate, reconstruct, sophisticate, quicken, refer, desex, affect, unsex, fixate, resort, restore, relate, rectify, touch on, recreate, deposit, remedy, repair, pay back, doctor up, posit, bear on, bear upon, come to, animate, reanimate, limit, revive, restitute, set, fix, pay off, reinstate, doctor, indemnifymend, healverb
heal or recover
"My broken leg is mending"
Synonyms:
repair, furbish up, bushel, restore, touch on, fix, bring around, heal, cure, doctor
Editors Contribution
bridge the gapverb
to aid in the repair of, to fix, restore, make whole or renew; as in doing something to mend a broken relationship.
the daughter's misinterpretation of what her dad said necessitated someone to bridge the gap between the two. in other words, help was needed to mend their broken relationship.
Submitted by aslbj.007 on June 13, 2023
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How to use mend in a sentence?
The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.
It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is only these two blessed things that can begin to heal all the broken hearts."
It’s so gratifying to feel like we can start to mend a relationship with U.S. Soccer that has been severed for so many years because of the discrimination that we faced, to finally get to this moment feels like we can almost sigh a breath of relief.
There's been a lot of damage done that's continued through the summer and the fight over the Iran deal, there's some hope by the Prime Minister that he can begin to repair some of that damage. It's going to take a little more than a photo op at the White House or a couple of speeches at Washington think tanks to try to actually mend some of these fences.
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.
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- أصلحArabic
- spravit, opravitCzech
- forbedre, lappe, fikse, reparereDanish
- reparieren, flickenGerman
- επισκευάζωGreek
- remendarSpanish
- درست کردنPersian
- parantua, kunnostaa, kohentaa, korjata, parantaaFinnish
- réparer, rapiécerFrench
- ceartaigh, deisighIrish
- càirichScottish Gaelic
- ठीक करनाHindi
- megjavítHungarian
- rammendare, riparareItalian
- 修理, 直すJapanese
- 수리Korean
- herstellen, verbeteren, reparerenDutch
- reparereNorwegian
- reparar, conserto, reparo, remendar, consertar, melhorar, remendoPortuguese
- repara, dregeRomanian
- исправить, зашивать, починка, заштопывать, зашитая, чинить, улучшаться, дырка, починить, исправлятьRussian
- arnojAlbanian
- repareraSwedish
- onarmak, tamir etmekTurkish
- ٹھیک کرنا, سمجھوUrdu
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