means The act of repairing something torn, broken, or worn — clothes, fences, bones, or feelings — to make it whole and usable again.

from From Middle English 'menden,' a shortened form of 'amenden' — the same root that gives us 'amend' — which came through Old French 'amender' from Latin 'emendare,' 'to free from fault' (from 'e-,' out, plus 'menda,' a flaw or blemish). So 'mending' and 'amending' are siblings: one stitches a sock, the other corrects a constitution, but both trace back to the Latin idea of taking the fault out of a thing.