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Definition of Mending
1. Noun. Garments that must be repaired.
2. Noun. The act of putting something in working order again.
Generic synonyms: Improvement
Specialized synonyms: Darning, Patching, Care, Maintenance, Upkeep, Band Aid, Quick Fix, Quickie, Quicky, Restoration, Reconstruction, Restitution
Derivative terms: Fix, Fix, Fix, Mend, Mend, Repair, Repair
Definition of Mending
1. Verb. (present participle of mend) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mending
1. an accumulation of articles to be mended [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mending
Literary usage of Mending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of the Moravian Church by William Cornelius Reichel, Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, John Martin Mack (1870)
"mending a gun stock, making a breach pin, and cleaning the barrell 5 9 " drawing
a gun barrell and mending the lock S 16. " mending a gun stock, ..."
2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"mending WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the
frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; ..."
3. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring
mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; ..."
4. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1889)
"a. d 1724—Willm Mavin, mending the bells 060 Oil nnd candle used about ye ...
002 1726—To Will: Havin for mending ye Bell 050 To bend Leather and oyle for ..."
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