Mend
Mend (mend) , transitive verb
[Abbrev. from amend. See Amend.]
1.
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.
2.
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
3.
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
You mend the jewel by the wearing it.
Mend , intransitive verb
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved; to recover; to heal. — Shakespeare
Collocations (1)
on the mend , recovering from an illness or injury.