Definition of Mend

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Definition of Mend

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.

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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

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen

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

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs

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

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
Clara Barton

God never made His work for man to mend.
John Dryden

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
Christine McVie

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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