Dictionary Entry
mend
mend is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
- 3transitive verb
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
- 4intransitive verb
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
- 5noun
the act of putting something in working order again
- 6noun
sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
"her stockings had several mends"
- 7verb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"
"Repair my shoes please"
- 8verb
heal or recover
"My broken leg is mending"
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