amend

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈmɛnd/ Rhymes: -ɛnd === 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. 1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990,[2] It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== ameliorate correct improve See also Thesaurus:improve See also Thesaurus:repair ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== emend ==== Translations ==== === Noun === amend (plural amends) (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation. (informal, of a document, usually in the plural) Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”). ==== Derived terms ==== make amends === References === “amend”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “amend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === admen, ad-men, Edman, Mande, maned, Maden, Mandé, menad, deman, Medan, named