mending
noun
1 mending
Garments that must be repaired.
2 mending
The act of putting something in working order again.
synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation.
Roget 658:
improvement;
amelioration,
melioration;
betterment;
mend,
amendment,
emendation;
mending
etc.
v.;
advancement;
advance
etc.
(progress)
282;
ascent
etc.
305;
promotion,
preferment;
elevation
etc.
307;
increase
etc.
35;
cultivation,
civilization;
culture,
march of intellect;
menticulture†;
race-culture,
eugenics.
reform,
reformation;
revision,
radical reform;
second thoughts,
correction,
limoe labor [Lat.],
refinement,
elaboration;
purification
etc.
652;
oxidation;
repair
etc.
(restoration)
660;
recovery
etc.
660.
revise,
new edition.
reformer,
radical.
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Dutch: herstel, herstellingswerk, lapwerk, redres, reparatie, stopwerk
Polish: naprawa
Moby thesaurus: Great Leap Forward, advance, advancement, advancing, amelioration, ameliorative, amendment, amends, ascent, bettering, betterment, boost, compensation, correction, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fixing, furtherance, headway, improvement, improving, lift, looking up, making right, melioration, meliorative, mend, on the lift, on the mend, ongoing, overhaul, overhauling, pickup, preferment, progress, progressing, progression, progressive, promotion, recompense, recovery, rectification, redress, remedy, repair, repairing, reparation, restoration, revival, rise, satisfaction, troubleshooting, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility ... show more.
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