Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being mended.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being mended.

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  • adjective Able to be mended.

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Examples

  • I'd always thought of a broken heart as a metaphor -- they look so mendable on Valentine cards.

    Cathy Cash Spellman: How Divorce Helped Me Rediscover Myself Cathy Cash Spellman 2011

  • I'd always thought of a broken heart as a metaphor -- they look so mendable on Valentine cards.

    Cathy Cash Spellman: How Divorce Helped Me Rediscover Myself Cathy Cash Spellman 2011

  • It's not mendable, so I need to replace it with something.

    Knitting? Spinningfishwife 2007

  • It's not mendable, so I need to replace it with something.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2007

  • Sextus had a com - mendable familiarity with early Greek philosophy, and he ranks as an important source of information about the pre-Socratics and others whose works have been lost.

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • If there is any which is mendable, mend and use it; if not, consign it to the kindling pile at once, there to round out its career of usefulness.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • At which Amelia would not so much as look round, till perhaps the bowl slipped from her fingers, and was smashed into un-mendable fragments.

    The Brownies and Other Tales 1871

  • If, by "sustained effort," any little gentleman has accomplished an epic, let us frankly commend him for the effort -- if this indeed be a thing conk mendable -- but let us forbear praising the epic on the effort's account.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

  • The first are held to be totally without guilt, or rather com-mendable.

    Autobiography 1821

  • Android and the Linux Kernel Community - An anonymous reader links to Greg Kroah-Hartman's explanation of a rift (hopefully mendable) in the development culture of Google's Linux-based Android OS and the Linux kernel itself.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

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