Mend

Definition

mend /mend / v ၁။ (က) ( esp Brit ) ျပင္သည္။ ဖာေထးသည္။ mend shoes/ a watch/ a broken toy/ a puncture ❍ mend a hole in a sock. (ခ) ျပဳျပင္သည္။ ျပင္သည္။ They tried to mend their broken marriage. ၂။ က်န္းမာလာသည္။ ေရာဂါ ေပ်ာက္ကင္းသည္။ She's beginning to mend after her illness. ❍ The broken bone is mending slowly. ❏ mender n (usu in compounds) ( Brit ) ျပင္သူ။ a road-mender ❍ a watch-mender. ❏ mend (one's) fences (with sb) [ IDM ] (တစ္ဖက္ႏွင့္) ညိႇႏိႈင္းေစ့စပ္သည္။ Both sides must mend fences to avert a crisis. ❏ mending n [U] ဖာေထးခ်ဳပ္လုပ္ျခင္း။ do the mending. ❏ mend one's ways [ IDM ] ျပဳျပင္သည္။ ျပင္သည္။ He's been to prison but there's no sign of him mending his ways. ❏ on the mend [ IDM ] ( infml ) အနာ၊ ေရာဂါ သက္သာ လာသည္။ She's been very unwell, but she's on the mend now.

Examples

1. mend /mend / v ၁။ (က) ( esp Brit ) ျပင္သည္။ ဖာေထးသည္။ mend shoes/ a watch/ a broken toy/ a puncture
2. mend a hole in a sock. (ခ) ျပဳျပင္သည္။ ျပင္သည္။ They tried to mend their broken marriage. ၂။ က်န္းမာလာသည္။ ေရာဂါ ေပ်ာက္ကင္းသည္။ She's beginning to mend after her illness.
3. The broken bone is mending slowly. ❏ mender n (usu in compounds) ( Brit ) ျပင္သူ။ a road-mender