patching

The word “patching” has 2 syllables: patch-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈpætʃɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for patching?

In the thesaurus, “patching” has 47 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for patching along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for patching

  • adjusting
  • aiding
  • ameliorating
  • bettering
  • conditioning
  • correcting
  • curing
  • doctoring
  • enhancing
  • enriching
  • fixing
  • fixing up
  • freshening
  • furbishing
  • healing
  • helping
  • improving
  • maintaining
  • meliorating
  • mending
  • modifying
  • overhauling
  • preparing
  • readying
  • rebuilding
  • reconditioning
  • reconstructing
  • reconstruction
  • rectifying
  • redressing
  • reforming
  • refreshening
  • refreshing
  • refurbishing
  • regenerating
  • rejuvenating
  • renewing
  • renovating
  • renovation
  • repair
  • repairing
  • restoring
  • revamping
  • revitalizing
  • reviving
  • righting
  • servicing

Antonyms for patching

Meanings of patching

  • verb
    1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
    2. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
    3. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
    4. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
    5. To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
    6. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner.
    7. To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:.
    8. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
  • noun
    1. The act of one who patches.

Example Sentences

  • He spent the afternoon patching holes in the roof.
  • They’re busy patching the software to fix known bugs.
  • She is patching together an old quilt from fabric scraps.
  • Workers are patching cracks along the city’s main road.
  • He kept patching his jacket instead of buying a new one.

On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to patching, such as: abrasion, adjusting, aiding, ameliorating, bettering, blemishing, breaking.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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darning

tailoring

maintaining

  • abiding
  • accomplishing
  • adducing
  • administering
  • advancement
  • advancing
  • advising
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • allegation
  • alleging
  • announcing
  • arguing
  • asserting
  • assertion
  • asseveration
  • assiduity
  • assigned to
  • at work
  • augmenting
  • averring
  • avouching
  • avowal
  • avowing
  • belief
  • broadcasting
  • carrying-on
  • championing
  • charge
  • chronic
  • citing
  • claim
  • claiming
  • commanding
  • conducting
  • confirming
  • confuting
  • conserving
  • considering
  • contending
  • contestation
  • continuance
  • continuing
  • continuity
  • continuum
  • contriving
  • controlling
  • convincing
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • countering
  • covering
  • curing
  • debating
  • declaration
  • declaring
  • defending
  • demurrer
  • deposition
  • determining
  • directing
  • discussing
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  • disproving
  • driving
  • durable
  • duration
  • emphasizing
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  • enforcing
  • espousing
  • executing
  • explaining
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  • financing
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  • funding
  • furtherance
  • giving
  • going on
  • ground
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  • healing
  • holding
  • hurrah
  • husbanding
  • hypothesis
  • idea
  • increase
  • increasing
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  • justifying
  • keeping
  • keeping up
  • lasting
  • line
  • living in
  • long-lasting
  • long-lived
  • long-standing
  • managing
  • manipulating
  • mending
  • mentioning
  • moving
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • old
  • opinion
  • ordering
  • owning
  • patching
  • patronizing
  • perdurable
  • perennial
  • performing
  • permanent
  • permeating
  • perpetuating
  • perpetuation
  • persevering
  • persistence
  • persistent
  • persisting
  • persuading
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  • placed
  • plea
  • pleading
  • position
  • possessing
  • posted
  • postscript
  • practicing
  • predication
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • proclaiming
  • producing
  • production
  • professing
  • profession
  • progressing
  • prolongation
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  • propagation
  • proposing
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  • protesting
  • protracting
  • protraction
  • purporting
  • pursuing
  • putting forth
  • rationalizing
  • reaffirming
  • reasoning
  • reasserting
  • rebuilding
  • rebutting
  • recommending
  • reconstructing
  • refuting
  • regulating
  • rehabilitating
  • rejuvenating
  • remaining
  • remedying
  • residing
  • resting
  • restoring
  • revolving
  • rumpus
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • saving
  • screening
  • sequel
  • servicing
  • serving
  • setting up
  • settled on
  • shielding
  • sitting
  • situated
  • spinning
  • sponsoring
  • staking
  • stand
  • standing up for
  • stating
  • staying
  • sticking up for
  • stressing
  • submitting
  • succession
  • suggesting
  • supervising
  • supplement
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • sustenance
  • taking care of
  • taking up
  • tenacity
  • tenanting
  • thesis
  • transacting
  • turning
  • underlining
  • underscoring
  • underwriting
  • upholding
  • urging
  • using
  • view
  • vindicating
  • warranting
  • wielding

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