mending

mending

1. present participle and gerund of mend

mending (plural mendings)

1. 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 […]

• fence-mending

m +‎ pending

• IPA^(key): [məndiəŋ]
• Hyphenation: men‧ding
• Rhymes: -iŋ

mending

1. to hear

From Sundanese mending.

• IPA^(key): [məndiŋ]
• Hyphenation: men‧ding

mending

1. better

• “mending” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.