mend

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

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

   When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.

   flicken, reparieren

   чини́тьčinítʹ, почини́тьpočinítʹ, исправля́тьispravljátʹ

   ла́годитиláhodyty, пола́годитиpoláhodyty

2. (figuratively, transitive)To add fuel to (a fire).

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

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

   Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.

   My broken heart was mended.

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

6. (figuratively, transitive)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).

7. (figuratively, regional, transitive)To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.

   heal or recover

8. (figuratively, intransitive)Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.

9. (figuratively, intransitive)Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.

10. (Scotland, figuratively, intransitive)To become morally improved or reformed.

11. (archaic, figuratively, transitive)To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.

12. (archaic, figuratively, transitive)To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).

1. We have to mend those fences.

   Ми маємо полагодити ті паркани.

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2. I asked him to mend my shoes.

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3. Tom is still trying to mend fences.

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4. I had him mend my watch.

   Він полагодив мій годинник.

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5. The children were mending their butterfly nets.

   Діти лагодили свої сачки для метеликів.

   deDie Kinder flickten ihre Kescher.

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