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Mending   /mˈɛndɪŋ/   Listen
Mending

noun
1.
Garments that must be repaired.
2.
The act of putting something in working order again.  Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation.


Mend

verb
(past & past part. mended; pres. part. mending)
1.
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.  Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, repair, restore, touch on.  "Repair my shoes please"
2.
Heal or recover.  Synonym: heal.



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"Mending" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the inevitable, so I wished my young friend good fortune, and told him he could have whatever money he wanted to start his shop with, if what he had in hand was not sufficient. He thanked me, asked me to be kind enough to let him do all my mending and repairing, and to get him any other like orders that I could, and left me ...
— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler
... a circumstance to some of them," remarked Allison, who was virtuously spending her recreation hour in sewing buttons on her gloves and mending a rip in the lining of her coat-sleeve. "Wait till you come to the programme of the recital given by the students of voice, violin, and piano. The pictures she made all around the margin of it are some of the best she has done. The sketch of Susie Tyndall, tearing her hair and shrieking out the ...
— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston
... the list which she handed her. She told her to notice particularly if a fine linen handkerchief of Monsieur Ratignolle's, which was missing last week, had been returned; and to be sure to set to one side such pieces as required mending and darning. ...
— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin
... expectation should be therefore, that most people of mature years, however much they might approve of other people's mending their ways, or even of mending their own, will be found to limit ...
— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)
... in Celia's room, mending by candle-light, and the steward who brought the message was awaiting Ailsa's response, and Celia's lifted eyes grew curious as she watched her sister-in-law's ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers


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