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Verb: mend fences
  1. Repair a fence or boundary wall
    "The farmer spent the weekend mending fences around his property"
     
  2. [informal] Improve a damaged relationship or resolve a disagreement
    "After their argument, the siblings tried to mend fences by talking things out"

Derived forms: mends fences, mending fences, mended fences