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• present participle of mend.

mending

American  

[men-ding] / ˈmɛn dɪŋ /

noun

• mendings
  plural

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.

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mending British  

/ ˈmɛndɪŋ /

noun

1. something to be mended, esp clothes

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• mendings
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of mending

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

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Example Sentences

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mending mendings

Parker has been mending rifts professionally for 25 years, but she insists that her skill set shouldn’t be special.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The court previously heard Dyson had been living in his car outside Wright's cottage on Sheffield Road in Hoyland, often helping him with various jobs like cutting hedges, mending tractors and driving him to appointments.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

One of the biggest stars of the era was Shirley Temple, a sweet, ringleted child who comforted audiences by mending rifts in families and melting the hearts of tough guys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026

"You don't get many people mending raw cashmere," said Wade, whose role is to meticulously inspect and darn any defects in the fabric by hand, before it is washed, cut and shipped around the world.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Pa spun into a fixing frenzy repairing tack, mending his boots, and moving from room to room tending to all the things he’d let go during planting season.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

The seams were white, the edges curled, the buttonholes torn in spite of many mendings; the whole presenting to the most unobservant eyes the heart-breaking stigmas of honest penury.

From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Their pieces of clothing appear like new mendings on old rags, or like a substantial shawl thrown over scanty vestments.

From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

The awful strain on the old rotten harness when Cherub pulled and the vehicle was held up, caused the frayed rope mendings to part and the eager horse hurried forward, leaving his unwelcome drag behind.

From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Evidently the system of upkeep in vogue was the system employed in the case of Trishkin's coat—the system of cutting up the cuffs and the collar into mendings for the elbows.

From Dead Souls by D. J. Hogarth

For what are coarse material mendings to the æsthetic soul yearning after the infinite, and worshipping at the feet of the prophet?

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun

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