Amend
[ə'mend] or [ə'mɛnd]
Definition
(v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better
(v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;
(v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;
(v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
(v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
Edited by Carmella
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Improve, mend, emend, correct, rectify, reform, AMELIORATE.
v. n. Improve, mend, become better.
Edited by Flo
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Improve, mend, repair, correct, rectify, better, ameliorate, reform
ANT:Deteriorate, degenerate, neglect, aggravate, tarnish, blemish, spoil, corrupt,vitiate, impair, mar
Typist: Susan
Definition
v.t. to correct: to improve: to alter in detail as a bill before parliament often so fundamentally as to overthrow entirely the thing originally proposed.—v.i. to grow or become better.—adjs. Amend′able Amend′atory corrective.—n. Amend′ment correction: improvement: an alteration proposed on a bill under consideration: a counter-proposal put before a public meeting: a counter-motion.—n.pl. Amends′ supply of a loss: compensation: reparation.
Editor: Spence
Examples
- It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King's cheer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Confess this minute, sir,' said Bella, 'that you did it to correct and amend me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Arriving at the conclusion that it certainly was, he turned his back upon the scenes of the past, resolved to amend it in some new sphere of action. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We shall cheer her sorrows, said Prince John, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then John Jarndyce discovers that Ada and I must break off and that if I don't amend that very objectionable course, I am not fit for her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I can now only confess and endeavour to amend. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I must temperately but firmly call upon you, sir, to amend that question. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Upon this compulsion, Mr. Godfrey made an effort, and came out with a new and amended version of the affair, to the following effect. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Well, hardly ever, he amended and went on reading the letters. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They amended and reconstructed, they had their fashions and their phases of negligence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He knelt before ten cardinals in scarlet, an assembly august enough to overawe truth itself, while he amended the creation he had disarranged. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At first it gave Home Rule to all Ireland; but an Amending Act, excluding Ulster on certain conditions, was promised. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mrs. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase make some amends; knowing that her husband must understand her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her idea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me, even for the loss of my friend. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It seems to me, after maturely thinking it over, that the best amends for having got out of the square is to get back into the square. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This was the way I brought myself to think, mother, that my best amends was to lie upon that bed I had made, and die upon it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At that instant, she felt that years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I told the gentleman at first, when he told me upstairs it was come to light, that I would answer for your being umble, and making amends. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I would rather do without something for ourselves, to make some amends to my poor brother's family. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checker: Roderick