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# mend

verb (mend, mends, mended, mending); noun (a mend, mends)

«mend» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To repair something that is broken, torn or not working. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#m1)
2. To get better after an illness or injury; to heal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#m2)
3. To make a situation or friendship better: «mend a friendship». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#m3)
4. (noun) A place where something has been repaired. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life: mend a torn shirt, a puncture or a broken toy. In health, bones mend after a break. In friendship lessons, «mend fences» or make up after a quarrel. Phrases: «on the mend», «mend your ways», «mend a friendship».

### Examples

- Grandma mended the hole in my sock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x1)
- Dad mended my bike tyre. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x2)
- My broken arm is mending well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x3)
- She's on the mend after the flu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x4)
- They said sorry to mend their friendship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x5)
- Can you mend this toy? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x6)
- You can see the mend in the old jumper. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x7)
- Those who would mend others, should first mend themselves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/#x8)

### Note

Past: mended. Same meaning as «repair» and «fix»; «mend» is more common in the UK for clothes. «On the mend» = getting better. «Mend your ways» = start behaving better.

## In Jewish tradition

In the Chronicles it refers to repairing the Temple. The workers did honest work on God's house.

**Interpretation.** Repairing the Temple is read as a sacred duty and a model of caring for holy places.

### Examples

- And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD gave it to mend and repair the house; (Writings 2CH.34.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mend/#x1)

### Note

Past: mended. Same meaning as «repair» and «fix»; «mend» is more common in the UK for clothes. «On the mend» = getting better. «Mend your ways» = start behaving better.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mend» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mend/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mend» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mend.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «mend» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mend/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mend» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mend.html) on Mova free.