I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make do and mend (= when someone manages with the things they have and does not buy anything new )
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For many people, make do and mend was a harsh reality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fence
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The only thing she could do now was find Ana and mend a few fences .
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He'd be mending the fence by the garage tomorrow, Saturday.
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Is it too late to mend fences with your ex-wife?
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Security has tightened since the bombing, but the royal family has tried to mend fences .
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Voice over Stephen Morgan wants to mend fences with the council not build obstacles.
ways
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As a result of this report the caretaker was informed that if he did not mend his ways he would be discharged.
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She wrote back in an unusually cheery vein in-tended to demonstrate, I suppose, that she was mending her ways .
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More uniform arrangements will allow good schools to flourish, they say, while forcing bad ones to mend their ways .
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This makes it less likely that investors would encourage a dissolute borrower to mend its ways by withholding finance.
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More recently, and equally significantly, the colony's stock market had mended its ways .
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And attempts to mend its ways are running into trouble.
■ VERB
make
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He knew how to change the washer on a tap, and make pastry, and mend a bicycle puncture.
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Whatever was made could be mended - that was a saying in these parts.
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They can make chairs, mend the loo.
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But recent events have shown that they need to learn to make do and mend .
try
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So I suggested that we should try to mend things by letting the house and all move to London.
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It happened while workmen were trying to mend faulty overhead cabling in the field where the stock were grazing.
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We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar.
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And questions: to forgive, to try to mend the marriage, or to end it?
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I was trying to mend a broken door in the floor of the stage.
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Security has tightened since the bombing, but the royal family has tried to mend fences.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mending this problem will take more than money.
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A pin was inserted to mend the fracture in his foot.
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I called a service engineer in to mend the lift.
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I need to get my sleeve mended.
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The children are taught to mend their own clothes.
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Walters was off the team for a year while his ribs mended.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I can afford new ones, but find myself spending a couple of quiet hours mending them.
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I had so little to do I spent all my time fussing over my hair and mending my clothes.
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It can cope with a cold, fight off a serious illness and with time, even mend a broken bone.
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It used to stick and Emyr has mended it, but Hywel still kicks it.
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Moses Mossop was regularly at work making and mending wooden barrels.
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Their clothes were mended as well as their bruises, their tempers and their hopes.
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They travelled in open formation, picking their way around obstacles and frequently having to stop to mend punctures.
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Yes, she agreed with Louise, quarrels could be mended by talking.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Every length of rope had mends and splices.
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Robby Thompson, on the mend from shoulder and back injuries last season, continued to have a tremendous spring.
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They are still unrepresented in great cities such as Manchester and Liverpool, but they seem at last to be on the mend .