mend.

To 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.

To add fuel to (a fire).

To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.

To 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.

To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.

In 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).

To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.

To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).

To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.

To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.

To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).

To put out (a candle).

To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).

To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.

To reform (oneself).

To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).

To repair the clothes of (someone).

To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.

Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.

Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.

Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.

Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.

To become morally improved or reformed.

Chiefly used together with make: to make repairs.

To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.

To improve in amount or price.

Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.

Followed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.

Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.

To advantage, to avail, to help.

Senses relating to improvement or repairing. An act of repairing.

My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.

Senses relating to improvement or repairing. A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.

Senses relating to improvement or repairing. Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.

Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.