Patch Up

Definition: Patch Up

Patch Up

Verb

1. Mend or supply with a patch; "patch a hole".

2. Come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Patch Up

Compromise

Verb: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms; (contract); submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed.

Restoration

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Crosswords: Patch Up

Mountaineer's cabin with tobacco patch up Morris Fork of the Kentucky River, near Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "patch up": patch up a guilt ♦ patch up a quarrel. Additional references.

Albanian

sajoj (coin, concoct, cook, cook up, counterfeit, devise, engineer, excogitate, fabricate, invent, lay out, prefabricate, strike out, think up, toss up, vamp, weave), rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), qetësoj grindjen, meremetoj (cobble, doctor, fix, mend, refit, repair). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), скърпвам как да е (patch), изглаждам (adjust, atone, calender, face, file, iron out, level, make up, patch, plane, planish, polish, polish up, press out, reconcile, sleek, slick, smarm, smooth, sponge out). (various references)

Czech

zašít (darn, patch, sew up), srovnat (dress, flatten, parallel, straighten, straighten out). (various references)

Danish

reparere (fix, mend, patch, repair). (various references)

Dutch

verstellen (adjust, fix, mend, patch, put right, repair), stoppen (block, cease, clog, come to a halt, constipate, fill, fill in, fill up, halt, lay down, mend, patch, place, plug up, put, put down, stop, stop up), oplappen (mend, patch), lappen (mend, patch), flikken (mend, patch), boeten (do penance, mend, patch). (various references)

Esperanto

fliki (mend, patch). (various references)

Faeroese

pjøssa (mend, patch), bjarva (mend, patch), bøta (fix, mend, patch, repair). (various references)

French

rapiécer (patch). (various references)

German

zusammenkleistern (paste together, patch together), zusammenflicken (cobble, patch together, throw together), zukleistern, verarzten (sort out), leimen (glue, lime, stick, take for a ride, to glue), kitten (cement, fill, putty), flicken (botch, cobble, darn, mend, odds and ends, patch, repair, tinker, to botch, to cobble, to mend, vamp), ausbessern (correct, darn, improve, mend, patch, refit, repair, restore, to darn, to mend, to patch, to refit, to remodel, to repair, touch up). (various references)

Greek 

επιδιορθώνω πρόχειρα. (various references)

Hungarian

összetákol (botch, quisle, to botch up, to clout, to cobble, to fabricate, to knock together, to knock up, to slap together, to slobber, to tinker up), összecsap (clash, polish off, scamp, tear off, to encounter, to huddle over a piece of work, to huddle things, to huddle things together, to huddle things up, to huddle through a piece of work, to hurtle, to knock together, to knock up, to scrum, to skimp, to slap together, to slobber, to slubber, to toss off), összeüt (knock together, to clash, to extemporize, to knock together, to knock up, to patch up). (various references)

Indonesian

membandut (tie together). (various references)

Italian

riparare (fix, make amends for, make up, mend, overhaul, piece, protect, redress, repair, retrieve, right, screen, shelter, shield), rattoppare (botch, cobble, mend, patch, tinker). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

繕う (to darn, to fix, to mend, to patch up, to repair). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つくろう (to adjust, to darn, to fix, to mend, to patch up, to repair, to tidy up, to trim). (various references)

Manx

jannoo seose (concoct, consist, constitute, cultivation, make up), clampey (clamp, patch). (various references)

Pig Latin

atchpay upay

Portuguese

consertar (clout, cooper, darn, doctor, fix, fix up, make up, mend, nib, patch, recondition, refit, renovate, repair, restore, revamp, vamp). (various references)

Romanian

pansa la repezealã, improviza din bucãţi, cârpi (botch, bungle, cobble, darn, mend, piece, repair, spoil, stitch up, vamp, vamp up), cârpãci (botch, bungle, mess, mess up, muddle), aplana (accommodate, adjust, arrange, compose, fix up, make up, settle, smooth, stay). (various references)

Russian 

чинить на скорую руку, заделывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poravnati (even, level, patch, planish, realign), izmiriti (patch, reconcile), izgladiti (make up). (various references)

Spanish

remendar (doctor, doctor up, mend, patch, repair, revamp, tinker, vamp). (various references)

Swedish

ordna upp (fix, order, straighten out), lappa ihop (doctor, fudge, vamp), hafsa ihop, fuska ihop (ball up), flicka (cobble, damsel, gal, girl, lass, mend, Miss, patch, she, wench). (various references)

Turkish

uzlaştırmak (accommodate, compromise, conciliate, pacify, reconcile), onarmak (debug, doctor, mend, redress, refit, remedy, renovate, repair, restore, tinker up), derlemek (collect, compile, gather together, glean), birleştirmek (aggregate, ally, amalgamate, assemble, associate, colligate, combine, compound, confederate, congregate, conjoin, connect, consolidate, consubstantiate, couple, dovetail, federate, fuze, incorporate, inosculate, integrate, interconnect, interlink, join, joint, knit together, knit up, link up, match, mediatize, piece, piece together, pool, put to, put together, reunite, stick together, tack, tag, unify, unite, wed to). (various references)

Ukrainian

улагоджувати (accommodate, adjust, arrange, compose, reconcile), підлатувати. (various references)

consuendi, consuerat, consuerunt, consui, consuta, consuunt. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: caput, chapt, cuppa, patch.

-3 letters: caph, chap, chat, haut, pact, path, phat, phut, pupa, tach.

-4 letters: act, apt, cap, cat, cup, cut, hap, hat, hup, hut, pac, pah, pap, pat, pht, pup, put, tap, tau, tup, uta.

-5 letters: ah, at, ha, pa, ta, uh, up, ut.