Mend

  • 31mend — n. on the mend ( improving ) * * * [mend] on the mend ( improving ) …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 32mend — verb 1》 restore to a sound condition.     ↘return to health. 2》 improve: mend your ways. 3》 add fuel to (a fire). noun a repair in a material. Phrases mend (one s) fences make peace with a person. on the mend improving in health or condition.… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 33mend — 1. noun a) A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. b) The act of mending. 2. verb a) To repair, as anything that is …

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  • 34Mend in — (D; intr.) to Mend in with (she Mend ined in with the crowd) …

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  • 35mend — [12] Mend originated as a shortened form of amend [13] – or rather, of the Old French source of amend, which did not arrive in English until after mend. The Old French verb was amender, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *admendāre ‘remove faults,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 36mend — see it is never too late to mend when things are at the worst they begin to mend least said, soonest mended …

    Proverbs new dictionary

  • 37mend — [12] Mend originated as a shortened form of amend [13] – or rather, of the Old French source of amend, which did not arrive in English until after mend. The Old French verb was amender, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *admendāre ‘remove faults,… …

    Word origins

  • 38mend — See: ON THE MEND …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 39mend — See: ON THE MEND …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 40mend — verb Mend is used with these nouns as the object: ↑clothes, ↑fence, ↑net, ↑puncture, ↑rift, ↑road, ↑sock, ↑tear, ↑way, ↑wing …

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