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MEND

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

MEND is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

MENDS-s 2 MENDING-ing 5 MENDED-ed 3

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MENDINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
    • My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.
    • When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo add fuel to (a fire).
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
  4. figurativelytransitiveTo put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
    • Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
    • My broken heart was mended.
  5. figurativelytransitiveTo remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
  6. figurativelytransitiveIn mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
  7. archaicfigurativelytransitiveTo correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
  8. archaicfigurativelytransitiveTo increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
  9. archaicfigurativelytransitiveTo make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
  10. figurativelyregionaltransitiveTo restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
  11. obsoletetransitiveTo adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
  12. obsoletetransitiveTo put out (a candle).
  13. figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
  14. figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
  15. figurativelyobsoletereflexivetransitiveTo reform (oneself).
  16. alsofigurativelyobsoletereflexivetransitiveTo improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
  17. EnglandobsoleteregionaltransitiveTo repair the clothes of (someone).
  18. ScotlandfigurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
  19. ScotlandfigurativelyobsoletetransitiveChiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
  20. figurativelyintransitiveOf an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
  21. figurativelyintransitiveOf a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
  22. archaicfigurativelyintransitiveNow only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
  23. ScotlandfigurativelyintransitiveTo become morally improved or reformed.
  24. intransitiveobsoleteChiefly used together with make: to make repairs.
  25. figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
  26. figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo improve in amount or price.
  27. figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteOf an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
  28. figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteFollowed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.
  29. ScotlandfigurativelyintransitiveobsoleteOf an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
  30. ScotlandfigurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo advantage, to avail, to help.
noun
  1. countableuncountableAn act of repairing.
    • My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.
  2. countableuncountableA place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
  3. countableuncountableChiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
  4. obsoleteuncountableRecompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.