MEND, L. emendo, menda, a fault, spot or blemish.
1. To repair, as a breach to supply a part broken or defective as, to mend a garment, a road, a mill-dam, a fence, &c.
2. To correct to set right to alter for the better as, to mend the life or manners.
3. To repair to restore to a sound state as, to mend a feeble or broken constitution.
4. To help to advance to make better.
This plausible apology does not mend the matter.
Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
5. To improve to hasten.
He saw the monster mend his pace.
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