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Antonyms for mend
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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.6 / 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 Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. mend

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

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

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mendverb

    Synonyms:
    repair, patch, improve

How to use mend in a sentence?

  1. Carrie Symonds:

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

  2. Barbara Bloom:

    When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

  3. Lynne Spears:

    I was scared broken. I'm sharing this because I want people to know I'm only human. I do feel victimized after these experiences and how can I mend this if I don't talk about it.

  4. Catherine The Great:

    I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

  5. Walter Dale Langtry:

    The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#772mar
#2266damage
#6159harm
#11969corrupt
#21436spoil
#25560impair
#33156mend
#34071retard
#34306injure
#34734pervert
#37387deteriorate
#43554blemish
#47884depress
#51950tarnish
#55038aggravate
#64838falsify
#121624vitiate
#162847debase

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