mend
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)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.
Đồng nghĩa: amend, correct, fix, fix up, furbish, retrieve, make whole, mend, patch, put to rights, rectify, recondition, reform, refurbish, remediate, remedy, renew, renovate, restore, restrive, revamp, right
- 2.
(figuratively, transitive)To add fuel to (a fire).
- 3.
(figuratively, transitive)To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
Đồng nghĩa: make good, set straight
- 4.
(figuratively, transitive)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.
- 5.
(figuratively, transitive)To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- 6.
(figuratively, transitive)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).
- 7.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
- 8.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
- 9.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
- 10.
(figuratively, regional, transitive)To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- 11.
(obsolete, transitive)To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
- 12.
(obsolete, transitive)To put out (a candle).
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
- 2.
(obsolete, uncountable)Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.
Đồng nghĩa: mends
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ine h₁éǵʰsine-pro From Middle English menden, the aphetic form of amenden, or from its etymon amender and Old French amender (to cure; to fix, repair; to set right, correct) (modern amender), from Latin ēmendāre, the present active infinitive of ēmendō, from ē- (variant of ex-) + mendum (defect; error, fault) (from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (defect; fault)) + -ō.