Amend

Quick meaning: Amend is a verb meaning (transitive) To make better; improve.

Meaning

(transitive) To make better; improve.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• amends
• amending
• amended
• amendest
• amendedst
• amendeth

Synonyms for amend

Depending on context, synonyms include ameliorate, correct, improve, rectify, meliorate, better.

Antonyms for amend

Common opposites include exacerbate, aggravate, exasperate, worsen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ameliorate, meliorate, improve, remedy, rectify, better.

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