About The Word Amend

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Amend

Amend Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Amend?
[v] make amendments to; "amend the document"
[v] set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [v] to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" Synonyms | Synonyms for Amend: ameliorate | better | improve | meliorate | rectify | remediate | remedy | repair Related Terms | Find terms related to Amend: acculturate | advance | ameliorate | better | blue-pencil | boost | bring forward | civilize | come along | come on | compensate | correct | develop | edify | edit | educate | elevate | emend | emendate | enhance | enlighten | enrich | fatten | favor | fix | forward | foster | gain | gain ground | get ahead | get along | give satisfaction | go ahead | go forward | go straight | graduate | grow better | improve | improve upon | lard | lift | look up | make all square | make an improvement | make good | make headway | make progress | make right | make strides | meliorate | mend | new-model | nurture | pay reparations | perk up | pick up | progress | promote | put right | put straight | put to rights | raise | recense | reclaim | recompense | rectify | redact | redeem | redraft | redress | refashion | refine upon | reform | re-form | regenerate | remedy | remodel | remunerate | renew | repair | requite | reshape | restore self-respect | revamp | revise | rework | rewrite | right | set right | set straight | set to rights | set up | shape up | show improvement | skyrocket | socialize | straighten out | take off | transfigure | transform | upgrade | uplift | work over See Also | advance | aid | alleviate | alter | assuage | beautify | build | bushel | change | condition | correct | develop | distill | doctor | down | educate | embellish | emend | enhance | enrich | fine-tune | fix | fructify | furbish up | help | hone | iron out | lift | make pure | mend | palliate | perfect | polish | prettify | purify | put right | raise | refine | reform | regenerate | relieve | restore | revise | revitalize | revize | right | straighten out | sublimate | touch on | turn around | upgrade Amend In Webster's Dictionary \A*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Amending}.] [F. amender, L. emendare; e (ex) + mendum,
menda, fault, akin to Skr. minda personal defect. Cf.
{Emend}, {Mend}.]
To change or modify in any way for the better; as,
(a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt,
superfluous, faulty, and the like;
(b) by supplying deficiencies;
(c) by substituting something else in the place of what is
removed; to rectify.
Mar not the thing that can not be amended. --Shak.
An instant emergency, granting no possibility for
revision, or opening for amended thought. --De Quincey.
We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by
wedding her to a Norman. --Sir W.
Scott.
{To amend a bill}, to make some change in the details or
provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage,
professedly for its improvement.
Syn: To {Amend}, {Emend}, {Correct}, {Reform}, {Rectify}.
Usage: These words agree in the idea of bringing things into
a more perfect state. We correct (literally, make
straight) when we conform things to some standard or
rule; as, to correct proof sheets. We amend by
removing blemishes, faults, or errors, and thus
rendering a thing more a nearly perfect; as, to amend
our ways, to amend a text, the draft of a bill, etc.
Emend is only another form of amend, and is applied
chiefly to editions of books, etc. To reform is
literally to form over again, or put into a new and
better form; as, to reform one's life. To rectify is
to make right; as, to rectify a mistake, to rectify
abuses, inadvertencies, etc.
\A*mend"\ ([.a]*m[e^]nd"), v. i. To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve. ``My fortune . . . amends.'' --Sir P. Sidney. |
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