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
In spite, however, of the heaviest shelling the signallers never allowed a break to go unmended, and they were continually out under heavy fire repairing the damage.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by F. L. Morrison
In the country the old Roman roads were unmended, unkept; Europe was slipping backwards into uttermost barbarism.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
