mender:
(plural: ‘menders‘)
‘to mend’ = to repair, fix, set right a fault or some problem in a thing, such as a machine, a hole in a piece of cloth, a bad relationship between two people, etc.
a person or skilled worker who mends something,
a rug mender at work
e.g.
My uncle is a good mender; he can mend anything — from a broken tap to a broken relationship between a couple!
Our education system needs some good menders who can fix the flaws that ruin the future of our young children.
Menders are of different kinds: some menders know how to mend machines, some menders are skilled at mending utensils, some menders know how to mend business dealings and some menders are gifted with the talent of mending people’s defective minds!
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For an article about a great mender of books, please click here, for a blog post in which a passionate appeal to be a Mighty Mender of people, please click here, for an illustrated article about the toy menders in Australia, please click here and for a job announcement for a fabric mender that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here.
Note 1: ‘Mender’ is also used to substances and devices that are used in mending things. For an advertisement about a tear mender, a substance that is used to fix holes/tears in clothes, please click here.
Note 2: ‘Mender’, always with a capital ‘M’, is often found in the names of people, e.g. Mender Brooks, Adam Mender, John Mender, etc.
Note 3: ‘ Driver Mender’ is a software program that fixes hardware problems. For an article/advertisement about ‘Driver Mender’, please click here.
Note 2: ‘Mender’, always with a capital ‘M’, is often found in the names of people, e.g. Mender Brooks, Adam Mender, John Mender, etc.
Note 3: ‘ Driver Mender’ is a software program that fixes hardware problems. For an article/advertisement about ‘Driver Mender’, please click here.
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