mend

A blacksmith had to help mend a chain at one point.

That's like promising to mend a broken leg, then putting a bullet in both kneecaps.

Comment authors can see their negative scores and that's a signal enough for them to mend their ways, don't you think?

History shows us that, overall, religion creates gaps, it doesn't mend them.

In other words if you want people to cook and clean for you, serve you food, mend your clothes and fix your car, it will be cheaper.

This is also why I think it's so hard to fight hate, as even if you mend a wound, the memory of hurt lasts and fosters hate.

My ability to mend broken electronics very quickly became known.

By the time he arrived, these two women who had just been arguing were now sitting uncomfortably close to one another and attempting to mend the fence.

They say the economy is on the mend, the increasing number of failing business stories I read every week says otherwise...

While we might exult in the ruin-porn of Detroit, it is a city on the mend, and is really an interesting city full of significant potential.

' 'But in Japan you can hide in death, disappear into it entirely and mend the fault as you go' In Japan, suicide can be a gesture of moral integrity and freedom, or an act of beauty.

It was certainly on the mend and they were a small player in a giant market, but it was a PC-ish market and they weren't all that.>>They're going to get pushed out by more competitors in hardware[The grandparent] Completely agree.

You don't have to do anything "insane" on a motorcycle to get seriously racked up. What would be a minor fenderbender in a car leading to minor whiplash, where the policyholder was trying to see how many neckrubs he could get covered, on a motorcycle can be them picking gravel out of your road rash and involve broken bones that don't want to mend right and require surgery weeks later.

So my "real world" political contributions is in the space of injecting more cynicism into the democratic process in the hope of inspiring more people to avoid reflectively turning to the state to mend their ills and consider, for an example, technological solutions instead.

We already have a little experience of what I mean – a nervous breakdown of the sort which is already common enough in England and the United States amongst the wives of the well-to-do classes, unfortunate women, many of them, who have been deprived by their wealth of their traditional tasks and occupations – who cannot find it sufficiently amusing, when deprived of the spur of economic necessity, to cook and clean and mend, yet are quite unable to find anything more amusing.