Object

• puncture: Don't waste time trying to mend a puncture by the side of the road.

• fence: One autumn day the farmer returned home from spending the day mending fences on the moorland edge.

• rift: Not only did he have to pacify the tribes, but also mend rifts between the Roman legions.

• ty: The two countries have been stepping up efforts to mend ties since reformist governments came to power in Zagreb and Belgrade in 2000.

• leak: Hope they've mended the leak in the dressing room ceiling!

• clothes: The making of their own and children's apparel, and mending clothes for both sexes, young and old.

Converse of object

• make: Helen's Spiritualist friends say that during his visits to her cell Prime Minister Churchill made promises of making mends to Helen.

Subject

• kindness: A fractured world is mended by the kindness of strangers.

• mean: Whichever, my disordered mind takes great comfort in seeing stationary secured, sealed or mended by means of transparent cellulose.

Modifying Another Word

• soon: We have a few bruises which will soon mend.

• never: They mend the streets, but they never mend anything that is about us or belongs to us.

• well: They are often in good condition and can be very well mended and becoming very silver once again.

• now: The ligament reconstruction went well and I'm on the mend now.

• n't: He does n't mend things that aren't broken.

• not: Having a reconstruction will not mend sexual problems with a partner or change the way they feel about you.

Used with why or when

• when: A puncture was quickly mended when everyone lent a hand or tool to the process.

• what: I'll send him a message he'll understand that I'll mend what I have done.

Preposition: in

• time: The neck, just above the handle join, has been broken and mended in modern times.

Preposition: by

• kindness: A fractured world is mended by the kindness of strangers.

• mean: Whichever, my disordered mind takes great comfort in seeing stationary secured, sealed or mended by means of transparent cellulose.