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verb (used with object)
1.
to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
2.
to change for the better; improve: to amend one's ways.
3.
to remove or correct faults in; rectify.
verb (used without object)
4.
to grow or become better by reforming oneself: He amends day by day.
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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English amenden < Old French amender < Latin ēmendāre to correct, equivalent to ē- e- + mend(a) blemish + -āre infinitive suffix
1175–1225; Middle English amenden < Old French amender < Latin ēmendāre to correct, equivalent to ē- e- + mend(a) blemish + -āre infinitive suffix
Related forms
a·mend·a·ble, adjective
a·mend·er, noun
non·a·mend·a·ble, adjective
re·a·mend, verb
un·a·mend·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDSynonyms
2. ameliorate, better. 3. Amend, emend both mean to improve by correcting or by freeing from error. Amend is the general term, used of any such correction in detail: to amend spelling, punctuation, grammar. Emend usually applies to the correction of a text in the process of editing or preparing for publication; it implies improvement in the sense of greater accuracy: He emended the text of the play by restoring the original reading. 4. improve, ameliorate.
2. ameliorate, better. 3. Amend, emend both mean to improve by correcting or by freeing from error. Amend is the general term, used of any such correction in detail: to amend spelling, punctuation, grammar. Emend usually applies to the correction of a text in the process of editing or preparing for publication; it implies improvement in the sense of greater accuracy: He emended the text of the play by restoring the original reading. 4. improve, ameliorate.
Antonyms
2, 4. worsen.
2, 4. worsen.
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Example Sentences
- Salaries, however, are sticky and hard to amend.
- If they were wrong then amend the document.
- And it has been amended, and it can be amended again.
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Word Origin & History
amend
early 13c., "to free from faults, rectify," from O.Fr. amender (12c.), from L. emendare "to correct, free from fault," from ex- "out" + menda "fault, blemish" (cognate with Skt. minda "physical blemish," O.Ir. mennar "stain, blemish," Welsh mann "sign, mark"). Supplanted in senses of "repair, cure"
EXPAND by its aphetic offspring mend (q.v.). Meaning "to add to legislation" (ostensibly to correct or improve it) is recorded from 1777.
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