mend

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make repairs or restoration to; fix.
2. v. To reform or correct: mend one's ways.
3. v. To improve in health or condition: The patient is mending well.
4. v. To heal: The bone mended in a month.
5. v. To make repairs or corrections.
6. n. The act of mending: did a neat mend on the sock.
7. n. A mended place: You can't tell where the mend is.
8. idiom. mend fences To improve poor relations, especially in politics: "Whatever thoughts he may have entertained about mending some fences with [them] were banished” ( Conor Cruise O'Brien).
9. idiom. on the mend Improving, especially in health.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To repair, as something broken, defaced, deranged, or worn; make whole or fit for use; restore to a sound or serviceable condition: as, to mend shoes or clothes, a wall or a road.
2. To correct or reform; make or set right; bring to a proper state or condition: as, to mend one's ways, health, or fortune; that will not mend the matter.
3. To improve; make better in any way; help, further, better, advance in value or consideration, etc.
4. To improve upon; add to; surpass or outdo: as, to mend one's shot (that is, to make a better one).
5. To grow or do better; improve; act or behave better.
6. n. Amendment; improvement; course of improvement; way to recoversy: as, to be on the mend (said especially of a person recovering from illness).

Wiktionary

1. n. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
2. n. The act of repairing.
3. v. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
4. v. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
5. v. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
6. v. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create.
2. v. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken.
3. v. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
4. v. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved; to recover; to heal.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
2. n. the act of putting something in working order again
3. n. sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
4. v. heal or recover