Definitions for Mend

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Mend mend

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IPA: /mɛnd/

Mend is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Mend (demn).

Definitions for Mend

noun

1. the act of mending; repair or improvement.
2. a mended place.

Idioms

1. mend sail, Nautical. to refurl sails that have been badly furled. Also, mend the furl.
2. on the mend, recovering from an illness. improving in general, as a state of affairs:

verb (used with object)

1. to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing:
2. to remove or correct defects or errors in.
3. to set right; make better; improve:

verb (used without object)

1. to progress toward recovery, as a sick person.
2. (of broken bones) to grow back together; knit.
3. to improve, as conditions or affairs.

Origin of Mend

1150-1200; Middle English menden, aphetic variant of amend

Examples for Mend

Siegfried is his name, and only he who knows no fear can mend the sword.

"The more reason that I should strive to mend him," quoth Alleyne.

The two stricken Americans were flown to Atlanta, and Brantly in particular seemed to be on the mend.

I will mend the sword and Siegfried shall use it to slay the dragon.

There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.

The other is still on the mend, but was doing well the last Patterson heard.

As is often the case when the letter and the spirit of the law begin to fray, legal creativity gets called upon to mend them.

The Americans seem to be on the mend in Atlanta, but the priest died on Tuesday.

Thus came everything in to help the youth who had begun to mend his ways.

"Yes, that was it," Roland put in hastily, seeing his chance to mend matters.