mend

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).

   “My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.”

2. fiil To add fuel to (a fire).

   “[I]n, you Rogue, and vvipe the pigges, and mend the fire, that they fall not, or I'le both baſte and roaſt you, till your eyes drop out, like 'hem.”

3. fiil To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.

   “Dro[mio of Syracuse]. […] [S]he ſvveats a man may goe ouer-ſhooes in the grime of it. / Anti[pholus of Syracuse]. That's a fault that vvater vvill mend.”

4. fiil To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.

   “Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.”

5. fiil To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.

   “Youle not endure him, god ſhall mend my ſoule, / Youle make a mutinie among my gueſts: […]”

6. fiil 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).

   “Cudgell thy braines no more about it, for your dull aſſe vvill not mend his pace vvith beating, […]”

7. fiil To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.

   “Salt Earth and bitter are not fit to ſovv, / Nor vvill be tam'd or mended vvith the Plough.”

8. fiil To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).

   “[N]ay he can ſing / A meane moſt meanely, and in huſhering, / Mende him vvho can, the Ladies call him ſvveete.”

9. fiil To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.

   “Yee may sir, (quoth he), mend three nayes with one yee.”

10. fiil To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.

    “Yearly thy Herds in vigour vvill impair; / Recruit and mend 'em vvith thy Yearly care: […]”

11. fiil To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).

    “VVhy he vvill looke vppon his boote, and ſing: mend the Ruffe and ſing, aske queſtions and ſing, picke his teeth, and ſing: I knovv a man that had this tricke of melancholy hold a goodly Mannor for a ſong.”

12. fiil To put out (a candle).
13. fiil To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).

    “VVill you goe vvith me, vvee'll mend our dinner here?”

14. fiil To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
15. fiil To reform (oneself).

    “[B]id the diſhoneſt man mend himſelf, if he mend, he is no longer diſhoneſt; […]”

16. fiil To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).

    “[W]hatſoeuer is Nevv, is vnlooked for; And euer it mends Some, and pairs Other: […]”

17. fiil To repair the clothes of (someone).

    “"Ready?" said the old gentleman inquiringly, when his guests had been washed, mended, brushed, and brandied.”

18. fiil To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
19. fiil Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
20. fiil Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.

    “My long ſickneſſe / Of Health, and Liuing, novv begins to mend, […]”

21. isim An act of repairing.

    “My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.”

22. isim A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
23. isim Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.

    “Though he was fearfully weak, he found himself actually feeling better. The disease had spent itself, and the mend had begun.”

24. isim Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.