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Emend vs. Amend

Emend and Amend Definitions

Emend

To improve by critical editing
Emend a faulty text.

Amend

To change for the better; improve
"The confinement appeared to have had very little effect in amending his conduct" (Horatio Alger).

Emend

(transitive) To correct and revise (text or a document).

Amend

To alter the wording of (a legal document, for example) so as to make more suitable or acceptable.

Emend

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Amend

To enrich (soil), especially by mixing in organic matter or sand.
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Emend

Make improvements or corrections to;
The text was emended in the second edition

Amend

To better one's conduct; reform.

Amend

(transitive) To make better; improve.

Amend

(intransitive) To become better.

Amend

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

Amend

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

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

Amend

An act of righting a wrong; compensation.

Amend

Clip of amendment
I've sent over a new version of the doc with some amends.

Amend

To change or modify in any way for the better
Mar not the thing that can not be amended.
An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought.
We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.

Amend

To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

Amend

Make amendments to;
Amend the document
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Amend

To make better;
The editor improved the manuscript with his changes

Amend

Set straight or right;
Remedy these deficiencies
Rectify the inequities in salaries
Repair an oversight

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