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emender

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e·mend   (ĭ-měnd')   
tr.v.   e·mend·ed, e·mend·ing, e·mends
To improve by critical editing: emend a faulty text.

[Middle English emenden, from Latin ēmendāre : ē-, ex-, ex- + mendum, defect, fault.]
e·mend'er n.
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