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mendingnoun the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strengthit was a long slow mending of his injuries from the car crash, but he's fine now comeback, convalescence, healing, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehab, rehabilitation, snapback resuscitation, revivalsurvival decline, degeneration, deterioration, fading, failing, languishing, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering, worseningregression, relapse mendingverbpresent participle of mendto put into good shape or working order againthat shirt will be as good as new when I'm finished mending it doctoring, fixing, patching, reconditioning, renovating, repairing, revamping fixing up, furbishing, overhauling, rebuilding, reconstructing, refurbishingaiding, curing, healing, helpingconditioning, preparing, readyingcaring (for), maintaining, servicingfreshening, refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, rejuvenating, renewing, restoring, revitalizing, revivingadjusting, correcting, modifying, rectifying, redressing, reforming, rightingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating blemishing, breaking, damaging, defacing, disfiguring, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, ruining, spoiling, vandalizing, wreckingcrippling, disabling, maiming, mangling, mutilating to become healthy and strong again after illness or weaknessshe's mending after a particularly nasty bout of the flu coming back, convalescing, gaining, healing, pulling round(chiefly British), rallying, recouping, recovering, recuperating, snapping back coming around, coming round, coming to, improving, picking up, revivingcheering (up), perking (up)pulling through, survivingrecruiting ailing, collapsing, coming down, sickeningdeclining, degenerating, deteriorating, fading, failing, languishing, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering, worseningregressing, relapsing to restore to a healthy conditionmended the broken plant so that it was soon thriving again curing, fixing, healing, rehabbing, rehabilitating, setting up attending (to), caring (for), doctoring, medicating, ministering (to), nursing, physicking, treatingfortifying, rejuvenating, renewing, resuscitating, revitalizing, revivingalleviating, relieving, remedying, repairing crippling, damaging, disabling, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, lacerating, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, woundingafflicting, ailing, debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, laying up, sapping, sickening, wasting, weakening to make up for (an offense)the proverb "least said, soonest mended" should be heeded by anyone tempted to angrily blurt out things they really don't mean atoning (for), expiating, redeeming compensating, recompensing, reimbursing, remunerating, repayingamending, correcting, rectifying, redressingpropitiating making amends for, making good for to change one's behavior or character for the bettereveryone's written her off as a liar and a thief, but I say it's never too late to mend amending, reforming, shaping up, straightening (up or out) behaving, regeneratingbettering, improving cleaning up one's act backsliding, regressing to bring about recovery fromthe old adage that only time can mend a broken heart curing, healing, remedying allaying, alleviating, assuaging, relievingpalliating, salving, soothingeasing, lightening, moderating, temperingdoctoring, nursingmedicating, treatingdiagnosing aggravating, worseningmisdiagnosing, overdiagnosing, underdiagnosing |