amend
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Confer aphetic mend.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
amend (third-person singular simple present amends, present participle amending, simple past and past participle amended)
- (transitive) To make better.
- (intransitive) To become better.
- (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.6.ii:
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- (transitive) To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
Synonyms [edit]
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- ameliorate
- correct
- improve
- See also Wikisaurus:improve
- See also Wikisaurus:repair
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Translations [edit]
to make better
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to become better
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to make a formal alteration
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References [edit]
- amend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- amend in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
