Amend

/əˈmɛnd/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make better; improve..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make better; improve.
2. (intransitive) To become better.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
5. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
6. (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
7. (informal, of a document, usually in the plural) Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).

Example Sentences

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

We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.

I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

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.

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.

he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended.

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.

1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990, It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]

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