patch up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles."
- "You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument."
- "But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash."
- "Nixon was very curious about developments on the Chinese mainland. He particularly wanted to know whether the Vice-Premier saw any possibility of Peking and Moscow patching up their feud in the foreseeable future. Chiang Ching-kuo answered in the negative."
- "Rocko and Heffer appear on a talk show after they have a fight, but they fail to please the audience when they patch things up."