- present participle of mend.
noun
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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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A pile of mending projects in my sewing room filled a shelf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
After Hasina's fall, Dhaka wasted little time in mending fences with Islamabad.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
But inviting us to sit down with a show about mental health professionals mending their spirits is group therapy on a massive scale in a time of diagnosable disorder.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 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
All my makings and mendings and turnings are done at home by a clever little workwoman, under my own superintendance, and I am most careful and economical.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black
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
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
Amongst his various mendings of old shoes at Callerton.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
Had she not clothes enough to last her with patient mendings and persistent remakings for two years?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
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