Usually means: Repair something that is broken.
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  1. mend: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mend, mend: Wordnik
  7. mend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mend: Wiktionary
  9. mend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mend: Dictionary.com
  13. mend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MEND, The Mend (band), The Mend (film), The Mend (group): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mend: Rhymezone
  19. mend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mend: Free Dictionary
  22. mend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mend: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mend-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mend: Legal dictionary

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  1. mend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. MEND: Acronym Finder
  2. mend: Idioms

(Note: See mendable as well.)

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verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To add fuel to (a fire).
verb:  To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
verb:  To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
verb:  To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
verb:  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).
verb:  (archaic) To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
verb:  (archaic) To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
verb:  (archaic) To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
verb:  (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
verb:  To put out (a candle).
verb:  (figurative) To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
verb:  (figurative) To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
verb:  (reflexive, figurative) To reform (oneself).
verb:  (also reflexive, figurative) To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
verb:  (England, regional) To repair the clothes of (someone).
verb:  (Northern Ireland, Scotland, figurative) To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
verb:  (Scotland, figurative) Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
verb:  Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
verb:  (archaic) Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
verb:  (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
verb:  Chiefly used together with make: to make repairs.
verb:  (figurative) To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
verb:  (figurative) To improve in amount or price.
verb:  (figurative) Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
verb:  (figurative) Followed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.
verb:  (Northern Ireland, Scotland, figurative) Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
verb:  (Scotland, figurative) To advantage, to avail, to help.
noun:  Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
noun:  (countable) An act of repairing.
noun:  (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
noun:  (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.

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