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Definition of Mend
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Mend
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. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace. To help, to advance, to further; to add to. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved. Related Definitions:
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Mend Quotations
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Benjamin Franklin I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. Margaret Mitchell A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Oliver Wendell Holmes 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. William Penn If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. Jane Austen |
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Mend Translations
mend in Danish is reparere mend in Dutch is lappen, oplappen, boeten, flikken mend in German is reparieren, instandsetzen mend in Latin is resarcio mend in Portuguese is emende mend in Spanish is enmendar, remendar mend in Swedish is laga, reparera |
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