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▸ verb: To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
▸ verb: (figurative)
▸ verb: To add fuel to (a fire).
▸ verb: To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
▸ verb: To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
▸ verb: To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
▸ verb: 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).
▸ verb: (archaic) To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
▸ verb: (archaic) To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
▸ verb: (archaic) To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
▸ verb: (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
▸ verb: (obsolete)
▸ verb: To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
▸ verb: To put out (a candle).
▸ verb: (figurative) To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
▸ verb: (figurative) To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
▸ verb: (reflexive, figurative) To reform (oneself).
▸ verb: (also reflexive, figurative) To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
▸ verb: (England, regional) To repair the clothes of (someone).
▸ verb: (Northern Ireland, Scotland, figurative) To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
▸ verb: (Scotland, figurative) Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
▸ verb: Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
▸ verb: (archaic) Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
▸ verb: (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
▸ verb: Chiefly used together with make: to make repairs.
▸ verb: (figurative) To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
▸ verb: (figurative) To improve in amount or price.
▸ verb: (figurative) Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
▸ verb: (figurative) Followed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.
▸ verb: (Northern Ireland, Scotland, figurative) Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
▸ verb: (Scotland, figurative) To advantage, to avail, to help.
▸ noun: Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
▸ noun: (countable) An act of repairing.
▸ noun: (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
▸ noun: (obsolete, uncountable) Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.
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