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patch

noun

1 an old jacket with patches on the elbows:

piece of cloth/material/fabric/leather, reinforcement;

piece sewn on.

2 he had a patch over one eye:

cover, eyepatch, covering, pad, shield.

3 a small reddish patch on her wrist:

blotch, mark, pop, spot, smudge, dot, speck, speckle, smear, stain, streak, stripe, blemish;

birthmark, port wine stain, strawberry mark;

informal splodge, splotch;

technical nevus.

4 a patch of ground:

plot, area, piece, strip, row, lot, tract, parcel;

bed, border, allotment.

5 Adam and his wife are going through a difficult patch:

period, time, spell, phase, stretch, interval;

stint, run, term, span, extent;

British, informal spot.

verb

her jeans were neatly patched:

mend, repair, put a patch on, cover, sew, sew up, stitch, stitch up.

□ patch something up

1 the remaining houses were either being patched up or demolished:

repair, mend, fix hastily, do a makeshift repair on, repair/fix temporarily;

cobble, botch;

Nautical jury-rig.

2 he's trying to patch things up with his wife:

reconcile, make up, settle, conciliate;

remedy, put to rights, rectify, clear up, set right, heal, mend, cure, make good, resolve, square, harmonize.