back from the dead, give a new lease on life.
2. correct, amend, emend, rectify, set right or straight; adjust, arrange, straighten, put in order; better, make better, ameliorate, meliorate, improve, reform; revise, update, redo, do over, redecorate, touch up, retouch, rework; remake, make over, renovate, revamp, recondition, remodel, rebuild, reconstruct, refashion; renew, freshen, spruce up, liven up, add color to.
3. recover, convalesce, get better, improve in health.
4. on the mend recovering, recuperating, convalescing, convalescent, getting better, improving, on the improve, on the upswing.
mendacious, adj. 1. false, untrue, fraudulent, deceptive, prevaricative, perjured, misleading; fictitious, falsified, distorted, fabricated, invented, made up, trumped up; spurious, sham, bogus, mock, feigned, pretended, make-believe; exaggerated, hyperbolical, colored, misrepresented, misstated; counterfeit, fake, forged, meretricious, ungenuine.
2. lying, untruthful, dishonest, unveracious; dissembling, disingenuous, insincere, hypocritical, guileful, forked-tongue; deceitful, crooked, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced.
mendacity, n. 1. untruthfulness, inveracity, prevarication, equivocation, evasion, truthlessness; falsity, falseness, mendaciousness, deceit, duplicity, deception, dissimulation, crookedness; hypocrisy, disingenuousness, guilefulness, double-dealing.
2. falsehood, lie, untruth, perjury, prevarication, fib, white lie; falsification, fiction, invention, concoction, fabrication, half-truth; Inf. story, Inf. tale, Inf fairy tale, canard, yarn; Inf. cock and bull story, Inf. fish story, Inf. tall tale; inaccuracy, distortion, corruption, perversion; misrepresentation, misstatement, exaggeration, coloring, overstatement, Sl. barefaced lie, big lie, Sl. whopper, Sl. dirty lie.
mendicancy, n. beggary, mendicity, pauperism, pau-perage; alms-begging, Inf. panhandling, scrounging, Inf. bumming; poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, pennilessness, impecuniosity, neediness; Inf. hardup-ness, Queer Street, skid row; insolvency, bankruptcy, indebtedness, broken fortune, impoverishment; straits, distress, hardship, needy circumstances, hand to mouth existence, bare sustenance; beggarliness, raggedness, seediness, shreds and tatters.
mendicant, adj. 1. begging, scrounging, cadging, supplicant, petitionary, on bended knee, on one's hands and knees.
-n. 2. beggar, almsman, beggarman, alms-hunter, cadger, Inf. panhandler, Scot. gaberlunzie, Brit. mumper; moocher, scrounger, Inf sponger, Inf. bummer, Sl. schnorrer, palmer, parasite, borrower; U.S.
Inf. bum, tramp, hobo, vagrant, vagabond, drifter, gypsy; beachcomber, garbage picker, ragpicker, Chiefly Brit, mudlark; pauper, poor man, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, charity case, hardcase, welfare client.
menial, adj. 1. attendant, attending, serving, servi-tial; helping, waiting, ministering.
2. servile, slavish, subservient; fawning, obsequious, flattering, sycophantic, parasitical, Sl. bootlicking; groveling, truckling, cringing, sniveling, crouching, crawling; prostrate, timeserving, obeisant; degrading, abject, lowly, beggarly, humble, low; ignominious, base, mean, vile, ignoble.
-n. 3. servant, hireling, domestic, orderly, peon, creature, hand; attendant, underling, helper, subordinate, assistant, understrapper, subaltern; lackey, flunky, fag, SI. e:k, toiler, moiler; valet, footman, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, manservant, factotum; butler, steward, majordomo, buttons, houseman, cupbearer; yeoman, retainer, squire, chamberlain; jockey, groom, equerry, stableman, hostler; page, boy, boots, kitchen boy, turnspit; maid, maid-of-all-work, handmaiden, maidservant, abigail, stewardess, Fr. bonne; cook, scullion, Brit, slavey, Brit, skivvy, Brit, tweeny, Brit, betweenmaid; governess, babysitter, tutor, nurse, wetnurse, nanny, (in India) amah, (in India) ayah; laundress, housekeeper, cleaning woman, washer woman, chambermaid, charwoman.
