mend

To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).

My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.

When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.

To add fuel to (a fire).

[I]n, you Rogue, and vvipe the pigges, and mend the fire, that they fall not, or I'le both baſte and roaſt you, till your eyes drop out, like 'hem.

He mended the fire and turned the meat on the greenwood racks.

To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.

Dro[mio of Syracuse]. […] [S]he ſvveats a man may goe ouer-ſhooes in the grime of it. / Anti[pholus of Syracuse]. That's a fault that vvater vvill mend.

[Y]ou muſt examine vvhere the fault is, and taking the Pin out mend the fault in the Joynt.

To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.

Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.

My broken heart was mended.

To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.

Youle not endure him, god ſhall mend my ſoule, / Youle make a mutinie among my gueſts: […]

I vvould thou vvert a mans tailer, that thou mightſt mend him and make him fit to goe, I cannot put him to a priuate ſouldier, that is the leader of ſo many thouſands, […]

Senses relating to improvement or repairing.

My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.

Senses relating to improvement or repairing.

Senses relating to improvement or repairing.

Though he was fearfully weak, he found himself actually feeling better. The disease had spent itself, and the mend had begun.

Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.