AMEND

rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend

(verb) set straight or right; “remedy these deficiencies”; “rectify the inequities in salaries”; “repair an oversight”

better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate

(verb) to make better; “The editor improved the manuscript with his changes”

amend

(verb) make amendments to; “amend the document”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

amend (third-person singular simple present amends, present participle amending, simple past and past participle amended)

(transitive) To make better; improve.

(intransitive) To become better.

(obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).

(obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).

(transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

Synonyms

• ameliorate

• correct

• improve

• See also improve

• See also repair

Noun

amend (plural amends)

(usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.

Anagrams

• Edman, Mande, Medan, ad-men, admen, deman, maned, named

Proper noun

Amend (plural Amends)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Amend is the 16161^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1789 individuals. Amend is most common among White (93.91%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Edman, Mande, Medan, ad-men, admen, deman, maned, named

Source: Wiktionary

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A*mend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amended; p. pr. & vb. n. Amending.] Etym: [F. amender, L. emendare; e(ex) + mendum, menda, fault, akin to Skr. minda personal defect. Cf. Emend, Mend.]

Definition: 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. 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", v. i.

Definition: To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve. "My fortune . . . amends." Sir P. Sidney.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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