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Synonyms of mend in English:

mend


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verb

1‘workmen were mending faulty cabling’

SYNONYMS
repair, fix, put back together, piece together, patch up, restore, sew, sew up, stitch, darn, patch, cobble, botch, vamp, vamp up
rehabilitate, renew, renovate, redevelop, overhaul, recondition, rebuild, refurbish
make whole, make well, cure, heal
Northern English fettle, spetch
Scottish, Northern English ranter
archaic clout, tinker, beet
ANTONYMS

break, tear

2‘‘How's Walter?’ ‘He'll mend.’’

SYNONYMS
get better, get well, recover, be on the road to recovery, pull through, recuperate, convalesce, improve, be well, be cured, be all right, heal, knit, draw together
ANTONYMS

worsen

3‘quarrels could be mended by talking’

SYNONYMS
put right, set right, set straight, make up, straighten out, sort out, put in order, rectify, remedy, right, redress, resolve, square, settle, put to rights, correct, amend, emend, retrieve, improve, make better, better, make good, ameliorate, reform
ANTONYMS

make worse

4‘he mended the fire’

SYNONYMS
stoke, stoke up, make up, charge, fuel