Mending
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.
Example sentence: Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.
Fix
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To mend, to repair.To attach, to become attached; to affix.To become acutely focused or obsessed.To prepare.To make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins.To make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortionTo surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.To map a (point or subset) to itself.To avenge, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.To purposefully stare at someone.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A repair or corrective action.A difficult situation; a quandry or dilemma.A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.A prearrangement of the outcome of a competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
Example sentence: It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.