mendable

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mend

(mĕnd)

v. mend·ed, mend·ing, mends

v.tr.

1. To make repairs or restoration to; fix.

2. To reform or correct: mend one's ways.

v.intr.

a. To improve in health or condition: The patient is mending well.

b. To heal: The bone mended in a month.

2. To make repairs or corrections.

1. The act of mending: did a neat mend on the sock.

2. A mended place: You can't tell where the mend is.

Idioms:

mend fences

To improve poor relations, especially in politics: "Whatever thoughts he may have entertained about mending some fences with [them] were banished" (Conor Cruise O'Brien).

on the mend

Improving, especially in health.

[Middle English menden, short for amenden, to amend; see amend.]

mend′a·ble adj.

mend′er n.

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raccommodable

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