mend

1. (transitive)Examples: "My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending."; "When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended."; "[H]e [Jesus] ſawe other two brethren, James the ſonne of Zebede, and Jhon his brother, in the ſhip with Zebede their father, mendynge their nettes, and called them. And they without tarynge lefte yͤ ſhyp and their father, and folowed hym."Synonyms: amend, correct, fix, fix up, kludge, make whole, mend, patchtransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "[I]n, you Rogue, and vvipe the pigges, and mend the fire, that they fall not, or I'le both baſte and roaſt you, till your eyes drop out, like 'hem."; "He mended the fire and turned the meat on the greenwood racks."figurativelytransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "Dro[mio of Syracuse]. […] [S]he ſvveats a man may goe ouer-ſhooes in the grime of it. / Anti[pholus of Syracuse]. That's a fault that vvater vvill mend."; "[Y]ou muſt examine vvhere the fault is, and taking the Pin out mend the fault in the Joynt."; "It is a mean want of fortitude in a good man, not to be able to do a virtuous action with as much confidence as an impudent fellow does an ill one. There is no way of mending such false modesty, but by laying it down for a rule, that there is nothing shameful but what is criminal."Synonyms: make good, set straightfigurativelytransitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist."; "My broken heart was mended."; "So neyther is one vertue fit for all, nor all fit for one vertue: nor is that one ſo excellent, but by more it might be mended: […]"figurativelytransitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "Youle not endure him, god ſhall mend my ſoule, / Youle make a mutinie among my gueſts: […]"; "I vvould thou vvert a mans tailer, that thou mightſt mend him and make him fit to goe, I cannot put him to a priuate ſouldier, that is the leader of ſo many thouſands, […]"; "[Philosophers] therefore thought all the Service they could do to the State they live under, vvas to mend the Lives and Manners of particular Men that compoſed it."figurativelytransitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "Cudgell thy braines no more about it, for your dull aſſe vvill not mend his pace vvith beating, […]"; "When children to the school at morn did pass / With basket-store, thou [a goat] mendedst then thy pace, / And boldly into every school-bag spied / With insolent but inoffensive pride, / Till, bit by bit, the morning lunch was thine, / And off you sauntered as the clock struck nine."; "But though I mended my pace, I was only just in time to see them turn into - of all places - my hotel."figurativelytransitive