Synonyms for mend
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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.

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

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

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1. mend

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

1. • Improve
   • Sewing

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1. bridge the gapverb

   to aid in the repair of, to fix, restore, make whole or renew; as in doing something to mend a broken relationship.

   the daughter's misinterpretation of what her dad said necessitated someone to bridge the gap between the two. in other words, help was needed to mend their broken relationship.

   Submitted by aslbj.007 on June 13, 2023  

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1. mendverb

   Synonyms:
   repair, refit, retouch, patch up, touch up

2. mendverb

   Synonyms:
   improve, ameliorate, meliorate, correct, rectify, reform, amend, emend, make better

3. mendverb

   Synonyms:
   improve, amend, become better

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1. mendverb

   Synonyms:
   repair, patch, improve

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "mend":

   repair, fix

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How to use mend in a sentence?

1. Jewish Proverb:

   First mend yourself, and then mend others.

2. William Penn:

   True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

3. Dello Russo:

   He’s stable, they moved him out of ICU, he’s on the mend right now. They got him all stapled up, but he’s going to be there for at least two weeks.

4. ad.s:

   Missing hearts, missing people, missing souls, torn between distance and love. Were bound to stay together, no matter what, but god did it turns to leave them with the love for each other. Oh, the love, trust me, will never end. For me, he was my only, heart’s mend.


5. Joe Brusuelas:

   I think that the worst is over; the Federal Reserve has been very, very tough and very, very clear that they will backstop any further run against the banking system or banking institutions, so I think that is on the mend.