Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being mended.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being mended.
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- adjective Able to be
mended .
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Examples
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I'd always thought of a broken heart as a metaphor -- they look so mendable on Valentine cards.
Cathy Cash Spellman: How Divorce Helped Me Rediscover Myself Cathy Cash Spellman 2011
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I'd always thought of a broken heart as a metaphor -- they look so mendable on Valentine cards.
Cathy Cash Spellman: How Divorce Helped Me Rediscover Myself Cathy Cash Spellman 2011
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It's not mendable, so I need to replace it with something.
Knitting? Spinningfishwife 2007
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It's not mendable, so I need to replace it with something.
Archive 2007-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2007
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Sextus had a com - mendable familiarity with early Greek philosophy, and he ranks as an important source of information about the pre-Socratics and others whose works have been lost.
SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968
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If there is any which is mendable, mend and use it; if not, consign it to the kindling pile at once, there to round out its career of usefulness.
The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907
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At which Amelia would not so much as look round, till perhaps the bowl slipped from her fingers, and was smashed into un-mendable fragments.
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If, by "sustained effort," any little gentleman has accomplished an epic, let us frankly commend him for the effort -- if this indeed be a thing conk mendable -- but let us forbear praising the epic on the effort's account.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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The first are held to be totally without guilt, or rather com-mendable.
Autobiography 1821
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Android and the Linux Kernel Community - An anonymous reader links to Greg Kroah-Hartman's explanation of a rift (hopefully mendable) in the development culture of Google's Linux-based Android OS and the Linux kernel itself.
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