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Mending   /mˈɛndɪŋ/   Listen
Mending

noun
1.
Garments that must be repaired.
2.
The act of putting something in working order again.  Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation.


Mend

verb
(past & past part. mended; pres. part. mending)
1.
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.  Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, repair, restore, touch on.  "Repair my shoes please"
2.
Heal or recover.  Synonym: heal.



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"Mending" Quotes from Famous Books



... was thought to be mending, and thanksgivings began to be mingled with the prayers offered almost every hour in the churches; but for eighteen days he lay in a most precarious state. His wife hardly left his bedside, and his ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... Skidder. "You gotta get other quarters. It don't pay us to keep on buying benches and mending windows, even if you cough up for 'em. It don't pay us to rent the hall to your club and get all this here notoriety, what with your red flags and the po-lice hanging around and nosin' ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... see Edwards about that new incubator," he said when the meal was over, and departed; and Mrs. Bell, after trying in vain to do her mending, wiped her clouded glasses and went ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... in the outward form of medicine, but quite harmless in itself. Such is a bread-pill, for instance; or a draught of colored water, with a little disagreeable taste in it. These will often keep the patient's imagination headed in the right direction, while good old Dame Nature is quietly mending up the damages in "the soul's ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum
... clear; but the old picturesqueness and exuberance of passion were with him still. The public discovered that it enjoyed Ruskin's denunciations of machinery much as it had enjoyed his descriptions of mountains, and, without obviously mending its ways, called loudly for more. Lecture-rooms were crowded and editions exhausted by the ladies and gentlemen of England, whose nerves were pleasantly thrilled with a gentle surprise on being told that they had despised literature, art, science, nature, and compassion, and that ...
— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin


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