mending
/ˈmɛndɪŋ/
adjective
- Becoming better or healing after an illness or injury.
- The patient is on the mending path after surgery.
- Her broken arm is slowly mending.
- The mending bird was released back into the wild.
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noun
- The act of repairing something that is broken or damaged.
- She spent the afternoon doing mending on her favorite jeans.
- He keeps a basket of clothes that need mending under the stairs.
- The mending of the old fence took longer than expected.
- Clothes or items that need to be repaired.
- She sorted the mending into shirts and pants.
- His grandmother always had a basket of mending by her chair.
- I have a pile of mending to do this weekend.
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