Mend: alternatives and connections

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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To disprove or make void; to refute.

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The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of th…

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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of Sew

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Needlework; -- in contempt.

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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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of Darn

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The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

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of Patch

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The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

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The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

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The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restora…

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A fishing boat. See Coble.

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To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

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A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

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A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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To appoint.

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To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

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Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea v…

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A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.

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To advance; to travel.

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A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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of Heal

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of Heal

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A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

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To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.

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A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Fixed; solidified.

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of Fix

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That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is,…

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To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

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of Mend

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A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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To return.

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The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, re…

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To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

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