1. to free from faults or defects: such as
2. to improve in manners or morals reform
was advised to mend his ways
3. to set right correct
mend a corrupt text
4. to put into good shape or working order again patch up repair
the roads were never mended
— Ellen Glasgow
5. to improve or strengthen (something, such as a relationship) by negotiation or conciliation —used chiefly in the phrase mend fences
spends the weekend mending political fences
— E. O. Hauser
6. to restore to health cure
before the bone was fully mended
— Current Biography
7. to make amends or atonement for
least said, soonest mended
8. to improve morally reform
It's never too late to mend.
9. to become corrected or improved
depression and lack of spirit mended visibly
— Arnold Nicholson
10. to improve in health also heal
his injury mended rather quickly
11. an act of mending repair
12. a mended place
13. getting better improving
14. to make (something broken or damaged) usable again to repair (something broken or damaged)
15. to heal or cure (a broken bone, a sad feeling, etc.)
16. a place where something (such as a piece of clothing) has been repaired
17. improve, correct
I suggest you mend your ways.
18. to put into good shape or working order again
Can you mend a torn sleeve?
19. to improve in health heal
Your injury will soon mend.
20. a place where something has been fixed so that it is usable again You can't even see the mend in his pants.
21. getting better
Her broken leg is on the mend.
22. to restore to health cure
time will mend the broken bone
23. to improve in health also heal
24. an act of mending or repair
25. getting better or improving especially in health