Definitions for mending

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mending mend·ing

Spelling: [men-ding]

IPA: /ˈmɛn dɪŋ/

Mending is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in mending (degimnn).

Definitions for mending

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that mends.
2. articles, especially clothes, to be mended:
3. the act of mending; repair or improvement.
4. 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 mending

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at mend, -ing¹

Examples for mending

For years, Schmidt lived in poverty, eating beans and mending his clothes with flour sacks.

My old experience with parchment in the mending of my uncle's books came to my aid.

Madame Goujet continued her mending without raising her head.

One recent survey showed a clear majority believed that neither party was capable of mending “Broken Britain.”

So, he decided to give the church a chance, if not just for the sake of mending his relationship with his mother.

It is coming together now, mending, he sees it in paragraphs, is almost afraid to sleep for losing the connections.

Emma finished the sleeve of the blouse she was mending with a flourish.

London may as well also require that cabbies master the art of saddling a horse and mending a harness.

At her feet there was a pile of nets, and she was mending the broken meshes.

Madame Boche was going to a tailor who was late in mending an overcoat for her husband.