mend
/mɛnd/ verbo B1En español: remendar, enmendar, surcir, zurcir
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged). · My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.· When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right. · Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.· My broken heart was mended.
- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
- To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
Plural mend · He/she/it mends · Pasado mended · Participio pasado mended · Forma en -ing mending
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De la biblioteca
Let me mend it for you.
I mend pens remarkably well.”
“Thank you--but I always mend my own.”
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.
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