Amend
11amend — reform, *correct, rectify, revise, emend, remedy, redress Analogous words: *improve, better, ameliorate: *mend, repair: elevate, raise, *lift Antonyms: debase: impair Contrasted words: corrupt, vitiate, deprave, debauch, pervert (see DEBASE): * …
12amend — [v] improve, correct alter, ameliorate, better, change, elevate, enhance, fix, help, lift, make up for, mend, modify, pay one’s dues*, raise, rectify, reform, remedy, repair, revise, right, square*; concepts 126,244 Ant. blemish, corrupt, debase …
13amend — [ə mend′] vt. [ME amenden < OFr amender < L emendare, to correct: see EMEND] 1. to make better; improve 2. to remove the faults of; correct; emend 3. to change or revise (a legislative bill, law, constitution, etc.) vi. to improve one s… …
14amend — amendable, adj. amender, n. /euh mend /, v.t. 1. to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill. 2. to change for the better; improve: to… …
15amend — a•mend [[t]əˈmɛnd[/t]] v. t. 1) gov to modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill[/ex] 2) to change for the better; improve 3) to remove or correct… …
16amend — 01. We have decided to [amend] our policy in order to include new employees in the Christmas bonus program. 02. I won t support the policy unless it is [amended]. 03. The university tennis club has [amended] its rules to allow players to wear… …
17amend — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French amender, modification of Latin emendare, from e, ex out + menda fault; akin to Latin mendax lying, mendicus beggar, and perhaps to Sanskrit mindā physical defect Date: 13th century transitive verb …
18amend — [[t]əme̱nd[/t]] amends, amending, amended 1) VERB If you amend something that has been written such as a law, or something that is said, you change it in order to improve it or make it more accurate. [V n] Kaunda agreed to amend the constitution… …
19amend */*/ — UK [əˈmend] / US verb [transitive] Word forms amend : present tense I/you/we/they amend he/she/it amends present participle amending past tense amended past participle amended to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order …
20amend — verb /əˈmɛnd/ a) To make better. 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. b) To become better. he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such… …
