patch
verb/pætʃ/
/pætʃ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they patch | /pætʃ/ /pætʃ/ |
| he / she / it patches | /ˈpætʃɪz/ /ˈpætʃɪz/ |
| past simple patched | /pætʃt/ /pætʃt/ |
| past participle patched | /pætʃt/ /pætʃt/ |
| -ing form patching | /ˈpætʃɪŋ/ /ˈpætʃɪŋ/ |
- patch something (with something) to cover a hole or a worn place, especially in clothes, with a piece of cloth or other material synonym mend
- patched jeans
- to patch a hole in the roof
- patch something to improve a computer program or correct a fault in it by adding a small piece of code (= instructions that a computer can understand)
- A bug in the previous version has been patched in this release.
Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps from a variant of Old French pieche, dialect variant of piece ‘piece’.
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