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Definition of Amend
1. Verb. Make amendments to. "Amend the document"
2. Verb. To make better. "They amend their earnings this year"; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
Specialized synonyms: Alleviate, Assuage, Palliate, Relieve, Aid, Help, Regenerate, Revitalize, Enrich, Build Up, Develop, Turn Around, Help, Upgrade, Condition, Emend, Iron Out, Put Right, Straighten Out, Enhance, Bushel, Doctor, Fix, Furbish Up, Mend, Repair, Restore, Touch On, Reform, Reform, Beautify, Embellish, Fancify, Prettify, Build, Hone, Perfect, Down, Fine-tune, Polish, Refine, Distill, Make Pure, Purify, Sublimate, Fructify, Lift, Raise, Advance, Upgrade, Educate
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Causes: Ameliorate, Better, Improve, Meliorate
Related verbs: Ameliorate, Better, Improve, Meliorate
Derivative terms: Amelioration, Ameliorative, Amelioratory, Amendable, Better, Betterment, Improvement, Improver, Improver, Melioration, Melioration, Meliorative
Antonyms: Worsen
3. Verb. Set straight or right. "Repair an oversight"
Generic synonyms: Correct, Rectify, Right
Derivative terms: Amendable, Rectification, Rectifier, Remediation, Remedy, Reparation
Definition of Amend
1. v. t. To change or modify in any way for the better
2. v. i. To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
Definition of Amend
1. Verb. (transitive) To make better. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To become better. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.). ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amend
1. to improve [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: improve
Medical Definition of Amend
1. To change or modify in any way for the better; as. By simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like. By supplying deficiencies. By substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. "Mar not the thing that can not be amended." (Shak) "An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought." (De Quincey) "We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman." (Sir W. Scott) 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. Synonym: To Amend, Emend, Correct, Reform, Rectify. These words agree in the idea of bringing things into a more perfect state. We correct (literally, make straight) when we conform things to some standard or rule; as, to correct proof sheets. We amend by removing blemishes, faults, or errors, and thus rendering a thing more a nearly perfect; as, to amend our ways, to amend a text, the draft of a bill, etc. Emend is only another form of amend, and is applied chiefly to editions of books, etc. To reform is literally to form over again, or put into a new and better form; as, to reform one's life. To rectify is to make right; as, to rectify a mistake, to rectify abuses, inadvertencies, etc. Origin: F. Amender, L. Emendare; e(ex) + mendum, menda, fault, akin to Skr. Minda personal defect. Cf. Emend, Mend. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amend
Literary usage of Amend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"After plea set down, order obtained of coarse by Plaintiff to amend the bill,
and served on Defendant: Plaintiff not appearing, when the plea came on to be ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1915)
"240) entitled "An act to amend chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the Laws of
... 1471) entitled "An act to amend the Military Law, in relation to the ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, moved to amend the amendment by adding as a
proviso : " That no person who has been drafted and furnished a substitute or paid ..."
4. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Henry Wilmot Seton, Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Clowes, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1891)
"Leave to amend Specification by way of Disclaimer, but same not to be receivable
as Evidence. UPON motion &c., by counsel for the Pit, and upon hearing &c. ..."
5. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"A motion was then made by Mr. Taylor to amend the second rule, ... Mr. Adams moved
to amend the said resolution, by striking out of the same the word ..."
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