1.b> (); , ; to mend shoes ; to mend (up) one's clothes ; to mend a broken window ;
2.b> (; ), , ; his health is mending ; the patient is mending ; ; the weather is mending ; to mend one's ways / manners / , ;
to mend the / a / fireb> (, .. i>), ; to mend the matter, to mend mattersb> ; it does not mend matters to cry, crying will not mend matters / ; to mend one's paceb> ; it is never too late to mendb> .i> ; , ; (the) least said, (the) soonest mendedb> .i> , / ; / .