Antonyms for mend
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.6 / 5 votes

1. mend

   To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.

   Antonyms:
   aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate

   Synonyms:
   advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform, repair

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. mend

   Antonyms:
   damage, impair, pervert, retard, deteriorate, falsify, spoil, corrupt

   Synonyms:
   repair, restore, correct, promote, improve, rectify, reform, amend, ameliorate, better

Matched Categories

1. • Improve
   • Sewing

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mend, patch, darnnoun

   sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)

   "her stockings had several mends"

   Synonyms:
   reparation, speckle, fixing, eyepatch, patch, dapple, spell, fleck, red cent, fixture, temporary hookup, shit, hoot, tinker's damn, repair, plot, maculation, fix, tinker's dam, bandage, piece, plot of ground, while, damn, plot of land, mending, shucks, spot, darn

2. repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparationverb

   the act of putting something in working order again

   Synonyms:
   darn, stamping ground, haunt, neutering, locating, hole, fastener, holdfast, fixedness, fix, fixation, jam, fixture, localisation, hangout, fixing, location, mending, habitue, altering, amends, fastening, kettle of fish, fastness, resort, mess, repair, secureness, regular, localization, pickle, fixity, muddle, reparation, patch

3. repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch onverb

   restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

   "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"

   Synonyms:
   touch, furbish up, cook, desexualise, sterilize, ready, concern, prepare, get, set up, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, secure, pertain, sterilise, gear up, impact, regenerate, vivify, amend, situate, have-to doe with, heal, make, fasten, determine, renovate, bushel, desexualize, reestablish, define, specify, rejuvenate, reconstruct, sophisticate, quicken, refer, desex, affect, unsex, fixate, resort, restore, relate, rectify, touch on, recreate, deposit, remedy, repair, pay back, doctor up, posit, bear on, bear upon, come to, animate, reanimate, limit, revive, restitute, set, fix, pay off, reinstate, doctor, indemnify

4. mend, healverb

   heal or recover

   "My broken leg is mending"

   Synonyms:
   repair, furbish up, bushel, restore, touch on, fix, bring around, heal, cure, doctor

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1. mendverb

   Synonyms:
   repair, patch, improve

How to use mend in a sentence?

1. Jewish Proverb:

   First mend yourself, and then mend others.

2. Carrie Symonds:

   I havent needed to be tested and, after seven days of rest, I feel stronger and Im on the mend.

3. Angel Urena:

   On Tuesday evening, President Clinton was admitted to UCI Medical Center to receive treatment for a non-Covid-related infection. President Clinton is on the mend, in good spirits, and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses, and staff providing President Clinton with excellent care.

4. Alex Morgan:

   It’s so gratifying to feel like we can start to mend a relationship with U.S. Soccer that has been severed for so many years because of the discrimination that we faced, to finally get to this moment feels like we can almost sigh a breath of relief.

5. Sipho P Nkosi:

   The heart can be broken by many, but it only takes one person to mend it.

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