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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: garments that must be repaired
2: the act of putting something in working order again [syn: repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the action of a person who mends. 2 things, esp. clothes, to be mended.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mend Mend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mended; p. pr. & vb. n. Mending.] [Abbrev. fr. amend. See Amend.] 1. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine. 2. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace. The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To help, to advance, to further; to add to. Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit. --Mortimer. You mend the jewel by the wearing it. --Shak. Syn: To improve; help; better; emend; amend; correct; rectify; reform.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Mending is the sewing and repairing of clothes that have got holes in them. (OLD-FASHIONED) Who will then do the cooking, the washing, the mending? see also mend

Moby Thesaurus

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