with obj.
1- mend (knitted material or a hole in this) by interweaving yarn across the hole with a needle织补：
I don't expect you to darn my socks.
我不指望你给我补袜子。
1.1
- embroider (material) with a large running stitch织补; 补缀。
- a place in a garment that has been mended in such a way补缀, 织补处。
词源
early 17th cent.: perhaps from dialect dern 'to hide', which is from Old English diernan, of West Germanic origin; compare with Middle Dutch dernen 'stop holes in (a dyke)'.
( <美> 亦作durn)