mend
/mɛnd/ noun C2- An act of repairing. · My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.
- A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
- Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
Plural mends
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She would go and mend it.
The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so he would be as good as ever.
Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who continued, though slowly, to mend; and, in the evening, Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room.
Let me mend it for you.
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