繕

Meaning

繕 centers on fixing or improving something by hand, especially with thread or careful adjustment: mending clothes, repairing damage, tidying up, or adjusting details.

• 修繕しゅうぜん
  N2

  repair; mending

• 繕うつくろう
  N1

  to mend; to patch up; to repair; to fix; to darn

• 取り繕うとりつくろう

  to keep up (appearances); to put up (a good front)

• 繕いつくろい

  mending; repair; darning; patching up

• 営繕えいぜん

  maintenance and repair; upkeep (of equipment)

• 修繕中しゅうぜんちゅう

  in the process of being repaired; during repairs

• 修繕工しゅうぜんこう

  repair man

• 修繕工場しゅうぜんこうじょう

  repair shop

• 修繕積立金しゅうぜんつみたてきん

  maintenance fee (in an apartment building); maintenance charge; reserve fund for building repairs

• 修繕費しゅうぜんひ

  cost of repairs; repair costs

• 垣繕うかきつくろう

  springtime repairing of fences after winter damage

• 繕い立てるつくろいたてる

  to put up a good front

• 繕草つくろいぐさ

  Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)

• 羽繕いはづくろい

  preening

• 見繕うみつくろう

  to choose (something) at one's discretion; to use one's discretion in choosing

• 言い繕ういいつくろう

  to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of

• 身繕いみづくろい

  dressing oneself; personal grooming

• 金繕いきんつくろい

  repairing pottery with a lacquer mixed with gold, silver, etc.

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