mender
Use Mender in a sentence
dər noun
1.
a person or thing that mends.
2.
a piece of sheet metal that has been imperfectly tinned but that may be retinned to an acceptable standard.
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mend (mɛnd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to repair (something broken or unserviceable) |
| 2. | to improve or undergo improvement; reform (often in the phrase mend one's ways) |
| 3. | (intr) to heal or recover |
| 4. | (intr) (of conditions) to improve; become better |
| 5. | (Northern English) (tr) to feed or stir (a fire) |
| —n | |
| 6. | the act of repairing |
| 7. | a mended area, esp on a garment |
| 8. | on the mend becoming better, esp in health |
| [C12: shortened from | |
| 'mendable | |
| —adj | |
| 'mender | |
| —n | |
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Mender
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Small holes can be mended by cleaning the metal inside with steel wool, then filling with pewter epoxy mender.
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