Amend
Amend ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[French amender, Latin emendare; e (ex) + mendum, menda, fault, akin to Sanskrit minda personal defect. Compare Emend, Mend.]
To change or modify in any way for the better
(a)
by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;
(b)
by supplying deficiencies;
(c)
by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
Mar not the thing that can not be amended.
An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought.
We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
Collocations (1)
To amend a bill , to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.
Amend (ȧ*mend") , intransitive verb
To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
My fortune... amends.