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English Dictionary: Emend by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
emend
v
  1. make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Emending}.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault,
      blemish: cf. F. [82]mender. Cf. {Amend}, {Mend}.]
      To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make
      corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by
      textual criticism, generally verbal.
  
      Syn: To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See
               {Amend}.
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