mending

[ men-ding ]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that mends.
2. articles, especially clothes, to be mended:

   Grandmother always kept her mending in this wicker basket.

mending

/ ˈmɛndɪŋ /

noun

1. something to be mended, esp clothes

Word History and Origins

Origin of mending¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; mend, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

So, he decided to give the church a chance, if not just for the sake of mending his relationship with his mother.

From The Daily Beast

For years, Schmidt lived in poverty, eating beans and mending his clothes with flour sacks.

From The Daily Beast

London may as well also require that cabbies master the art of saddling a horse and mending a harness.

From The Daily Beast

It is coming together now, mending, he sees it in paragraphs, is almost afraid to sleep for losing the connections.

From The Daily Beast

One recent survey showed a clear majority believed that neither party was capable of mending “Broken Britain.”

From The Daily Beast

Some mending of the text is absolutely necessary, because shette is altogether a false form; the pp.

From Project Gutenberg

Those that I now saw were yoked in twos or threes to large waggons, full of stones for mending the roads.

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Sometime, she reflected, she would be mending worn garments for another man, now far away.

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After that home and to bed, reading myself asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.

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She goes to market with her father's cook, makes delicious pickles and preserves, and hasn't her equal in mending and darning.'

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