Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Amends; requital; remedy.

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

  • noun obsolete See amends.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Third person singular simple present of to mend.
  • noun Plural form of mend.
  • noun Obsolete form of amends.

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Examples

  • Still, the return of their mends was a welcome break for the four younger Linyaari, who showed them the artifact.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • Still, the return of their mends was a welcome break for the four younger Linyaari, who showed them the artifact.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • NEXT: A young driver's close call mends her texting-and-driving ways.

    Local News from Gadsden Times 2010

  • What, however, gives Bond's play a tiny shred of hope is the extraordinary final scene in which Len, who for much of the action has been Pam's punchbag, meticulously mends a chair.

    Saved – review 2011

  • These nevertheless embellished only certain of the mends — for example a missing or shattered portion of the foot or rim — and stand in shimmering contrast with the unctuous celadon or other luminous or earthy glazes with which the vessel was originally fired.

    Broken China 2009

  • It was Holtby's first loss in three games since being recalled from Hershey as Neuvirth mends from a lower body injury suffered in a 3-2 overtime loss to Philadelphia on Jan. 18.

    Goalie Braden Holtby the victim of unlucky bounce Gene Wang 2011

  • Feltman discounted Iranian influence on Syria, saying that unless Damascus mends relations with Washington, it has no chance of winning the return of the Golan Heights, which was seized by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

    Syria must wield influence in Lebanon to help U.S. relations, says top diplomat Glenn Kessler 2010

  • These nevertheless embellished only certain of the mends — for example a missing or shattered portion of the foot or rim — and stand in shimmering contrast with the unctuous celadon or other luminous or earthy glazes with which the vessel was originally fired.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Feltman discounted Iranian influence on Syria, saying that unless Damascus mends relations with Washington, it has no chance of winning the return of the Golan Heights, which was seized by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

    Syria must wield influence in Lebanon to help U.S. relations, says top diplomat Glenn Kessler 2010

  • Hopes she mends well and feels better soon. affect her job?

    How will Clinton's surgery affect her job? 2009

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