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Mend vs Wend - What's the difference?

mend | wend |

As nouns the difference between mend and wend

is that mend is a place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending while wend is a large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

As verbs the difference between mend and wend

is that mend is to repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine while wend is to turn; change.

mend

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
  • The act of repairing.
    • My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend .

    Derived terms

    * on the mend

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
    • 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 .
  • To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
    • Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
    My broken heart was mended .
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
  • To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  • * Mortimer
    • Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You mend the jewel by wearing it.
  • To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

    • Derived terms

    * mend one's pace
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Related terms

    * amend * mend

    External links

    * * * English ergative verbs

    wend

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To turn; change.
  • To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
    • We wended our weary way westward.
  • * Surrey
    • Great voyages to wend .
  • (obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
    • (Sir Walter Raleigh)
  • (obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

    • Usage notes

    The modern past tense of (m) is (m). Originally it was (m), similarly to pairs such as (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), or (m)/(m). However, (m) was long ago co-opted as the past tense of (m) (replacing (etyl) (m)) and using it as the past tense of (m) is now considered archaic.

    Synonyms

    * to betake oneself

    Related terms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, legal) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
    • (Burrill)

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