- present participle of mend.
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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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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
He promised to give priority to growth by holding the line on taxes, trimming spending, lifting barriers to infrastructure and housing, and mending relations with the European Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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
I had tried mending my uniform myself, but we had only blunt needles, and I wasn’t much good at sewing, so it soon came apart again.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
On the last three days of his stay he did me the honor to leave his coat out, declaring that my mendings had made it presentable before an emperor.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman
Fence and equipment mendings, cutting ice from ponds and rivers, chopping wood, and grubbing up trees all had a part in his busy life.
From Frying Pan Farm by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
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
Amongst his various mendings of old shoes at Callerton.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
Rhyme, now: he had called it often enough a jingle of endings; it were more true to say that it was a jingle of mendings, for it certainly soothed him.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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