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Amend

name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An act of righting a wrong; compensation. plural-normally

    "Thus by the code of the Visigoths, it was forbidden to all strangers to take their subjects under a penalty of one hundred lashes and an amend in gold."

  2. 2
    Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”). abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, plural-normally

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To make better; improve. transitive

    "Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended."

  2. 2
    set straight or right wordnet
  3. 3
    To become better. intransitive

    "The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend."

  4. 4
    to make better wordnet
  5. 5
    To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.). obsolete, transitive

    "But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend."

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  1. 6
    make amendments to wordnet
  2. 7
    To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness). intransitive, obsolete

    "Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great assay of art; but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand— They presently amend."

  3. 8
    To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. transitive

    "The following motions cannot be amended:"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.

Etymology 2

From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.

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