Meaning of patch up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To repair by adding a patch.
   idiomatic
2. To mend quickly.
   idiomatic, transitive
3. To repair relations; to improve relations.
   figuratively, idiomatic
4. To overlay.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level