mendable

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Of 900,000 already rejected for military service as physically or mentally substandard, 200,000 have been certified by draft-board physicians as mendable cases.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sails, while torn, had mostly survived and were definitely mendable.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

If there is any which is mendable, mend and use it; if not, consign it to the kindling pile at once, there to round out its career of usefulness.

From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)

Thirdly, to mend themselves, and the existing state of things, as far as either are marred or mendable.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John