| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  m nd |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: mend·ed, mend·ing, mends
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To make repairs or restoration to; fix. 2. To reform or correct: mend one's ways. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1a. To improve in health or condition: The patient is mending well. b. To heal: The bone mended in a month. 2. To make repairs or corrections. | | NOUN: | 1. The act of mending: did a neat mend on the sock. 2. A mended place: You can't tell where the mend is. | | IDIOMS: | mend fences To improve poor relations, especially in politics: “Whatever thoughts he may have entertained about mending some fences with [them] were banished” (Conor Cruise O'Brien).on the mend Improving, especially in health. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English menden, short for amenden, to amend. See amend. | | OTHER FORMS: | mend a·ble —ADJECTIVE
mender —NOUN
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