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Synonyms for amend
əˈmɛndamend
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
amend
To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.
Synonyms:
advance, ameliorate, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform, repairAntonyms:
aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate
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Princeton's WordNet
amendverb
make amendments to
"amend the document"
Synonyms:
better, improve, repair, remedy, meliorate, remediate, ameliorate, rectifybetter, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorateverb
to make better
"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
Synonyms:
better, improve, repair, remedy, meliorate, remediate, break, ameliorate, rectifyrectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amendverb
set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
Synonyms:
right, reform, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, fix, bushel, reanimate, mend, vivify, renovate, improve, correct, quicken, regenerate, reclaim, resort, restore, ameliorate, relieve, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, refine, repair, animate, better, furbish up, meliorate, revive, doctor, indemnify
Dictionary of English Synonymes
amendverb
Synonyms:
improve, mend, emend, correct, rectify, reform, AMELIORATEamendverb
Synonyms:
improve, mend, become better
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Amend
Amend vs. Emend -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Amend and Emend.
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#234 | right | |
#347 | change | |
#495 | better | |
#593 | changes | |
#848 | edit | |
#1326 | improve | |
#1569 | modified | |
#1618 | break | |
#1666 | repair | |
#1802 | changed | |
#1837 | advance | |
#1847 | correct | |
#1864 | resort | |
#2034 | doctor | |
#2464 | fix | |
#2484 | changing | |
#2812 | amendment | |
#2922 | revised | |
#2941 | revision | |
#3345 | reform | |
#3368 | replace | |
#3475 | modify | |
#3558 | vary | |
#3942 | amended | |
#5397 | refine | |
#5413 | modification | |
#5441 | amendments | |
#5701 | restore | |
#6635 | adjust | |
#7413 | alter | |
#7436 | amend | |
#8193 | remedy | |
#12629 | revise | |
#13287 | modifying | |
#13778 | relieve | |
#15257 | amending | |
#15260 | compensate | |
#17994 | altering | |
#18285 | mitigate | |
#20190 | quicken | |
#21126 | amends | |
#22636 | reclaim | |
#23117 | revive | |
#23960 | cleanse | |
#24417 | indemnify | |
#26041 | recreate | |
#26982 | animate | |
#27336 | modifies | |
#31890 | rectify | |
#32860 | regenerate | |
#33156 | mend | |
#36089 | renovate | |
#36357 | purify | |
#47016 | bushel | |
#60127 | ameliorate | |
#61208 | recompense | |
#77777 | remediate | |
#153865 | emend | |
#247030 | reanimate |
How to use amend in a sentence?
They have not stopped. The process continues, there will be a transition as we amend the ways in which the National Energy Board goes about the process of evaluating these projects, and we will announce those changes as soon as we can, but the process continues.
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?
Drive-through robberies and carjackings are two compelling reasons why we need to amend Michigan law to allow a lawful handgun owner to legally carry a loaded and accessible pistol without a CPL.
I seek to amend this legislation not because I take lynching lightly, but because I take it seriously, and this legislation does not.
This police disciplinary law is one of the laws we must amend while we are marching on the path towards democracy, this law can cause police much suffering because it is outdated.
Translations for amend
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- تعديل, حسنArabic
- поправям, подобрявам, кориги́рамBulgarian
- verbessern, novellieren, ausbessernGerman
- corregir, enmendar, mejorarSpanish
- korjata, muuttaa, korjaantua, parantaa, parantuaFinnish
- amenderFrench
- ceartaigh, leasaighIrish
- helyesbítHungarian
- emendareItalian
- 修正, 改正, 改めるJapanese
- menemanaMāori
- verbeteren, amenderen, corrigeren, aanpassenDutch
- poprawić, poprawiaćPolish
- melhorar, emendarPortuguese
- исправляться, [[вноси́ть]] [[поправка, [[вноси́ть]] [[изменение, соверше́нствоваться, улучша́ться, улучша́ть, соверше́нствовать, исправля́тьRussian
- poboljšatiSerbo-Croatian
- ändra, redigera, korrigeraSwedish
- düzeltmek, iyileşmek, iyileştirmek, düzelmekTurkish
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