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What (who) is mend - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
MEND (disambiguation); Mend; Mend (disambiguation); The Mend
mend
n. on the mend ('improving')
mend
I. v. a.
1.
Repair, refit, retouch, patch up, touch up, restore.
2.
Improve, ameliorate, meliorate, correct, rectify, reform, amend, emend, make better.
3.
Help, advance, further, improve.
4.
Increase, add to, augment, make greater.
II. v. n.
Improve, amend, become better.
mend
(mends, mending, mended)
1.
If you mend something that is broken or not working, you repair it, so that it works properly or can be used.
They took a long time to mend the roof...
I should have had the catch mended, but never got round to it.
= repair, fix
VERB: V n, have n V-ed
2.
If a person or a part of their body mends or is mended, they get better after they have been ill or have had an injury.
I'm feeling a good bit better. The cut aches, but it's mending...
He must have a major operation on his knee to mend severed ligaments.
VERB: V, V n
3.
If you try to mend divisions between people, you try to end the disagreements or quarrels between them.
He sent Evans as his personal envoy to discuss ways to mend relations between the two countries...
= heal
VERB: V n
4.
If a relationship or situation is on the mend after a difficult or unsuccessful period, it is improving. (INFORMAL)
More evidence that the economy was on the mend was needed.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
5.
If you are on the mend after an illness or injury, you are recovering from it. (INFORMAL)
The baby had been poorly but seemed on the mend.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
6.
If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
He has promised drastic disciplinary action if they do not mend their ways.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
Wikipedia
MEND
Mend or MEND may refer to:
- to mend, or to repair
- Mend, Iran, a village in Iran
- Mend (album), by De Rosa, 2006
- Muslim Engagement and Development, a British NGO
- Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy, a Palestinian NGO
- Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a Nigerian militant group
- 2-Succinyl-5-enolpyruvyl-6-hydroxy-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic-acid synthase, encoded by menD gene in E. coli
- Meet Each Need with Dignity, a Californian non-profit
- The Mend (group), a British boy band
- The Mend (film), a 2014 American film
Examples of use of mend
1. The MEND has threatened further attacks in coming days.
2. She‘s home and on the mend, I‘m relieved to report.
3. For me it‘s over: nothing will mend this fracture.
4. Mr Preval has promised reconcile divisions and mend the economy.
5. The bone will take several months to mend, Levy says.