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amend

UK/əˈmɛnd/ US/ʌˈmɛnd/ uncommon informal obsolete

verb

1.

make amendments to

  • “amend the document”
2.

to make better

  • “The editor improved the manuscript with his changes”
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3.

set straight or right

  • “remedy these deficiencies”
  • “rectify the inequities in salaries”
  • “repair an oversight”
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Origin

From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.

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  • make amends

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