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