Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/August 7

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Word of the day
for August 7
mend v
  1. (transitive)
    1. To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
    2. (figurative)
      1. To add fuel to (a fire).
      2. To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
      3. To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
      4. To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
      5. 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).
      6. (archaic) To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
      7. (archaic) To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
      8. (archaic) To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
      9. (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. (figurative)
      1. Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
      2. Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
      3. (archaic) Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
      4. (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
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