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English
Verb
piece up (third-person singular simple present pieces up, present participle piecing up, simple past and past participle pieced up)
- Synonym of patch up
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:[...] and the agrieved person shall doe more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, then to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the Stews, or stepping to his neighbours bed, which is the common shift in this mis-fortune, or els by suffering his usefull life to wast away and be lost under a secret affliction of an unconscionable size to humane strength.