n. 25B6; verb
workmen were mending faulty cabling : REPAIR, fix, put back together, piece together, restore; sew (up), stitch, darn, patch, cobble; rehabilitate, renew, renovate; informal patch up.
How's Walter? He'll mend. : GET BETTER, get well, recover, recuperate, improve; be well, be cured, heal.
quarrels could be mended by talking : PUT/SET RIGHT, set straight, straighten out, sort out, rectify, remedy, cure, right, resolve, square, settle, put to rights, correct, retrieve, improve, make better.
he mended the fire : STOKE (UP), make up, add fuel to.
break, worsen.