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Mending vs Fending - What's the difference?

mending | fending |

As verbs the difference between mending and fending

is that mending is while fending is .

As a noun mending

is the act by which something is mended or repaired.

mending

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is mended or repaired.
  • * 1844 , Edmund Leahy, A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads (page 133)
    • This road though frequently repaired had been nevertheless but little the better for the frequent mendings

    fending

    English

    Verb

    (head)