mend
verb (used with object)
to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing.
unmended
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a word derived from
mend.
Example Sentences
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Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the still unmended tenements of Madrid, before long now, a people whom victory had passed by would be shuddering.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had a horror of being found dead with mended or, worse, unmended underclothes.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Soiled frills or unmended hose must have originated this vulgarity!
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
Houses, churches, aqueducts went to ruin; roads were left unmended, rivers undiked.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
