amend : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: amend	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
amend v make amendments to; "amend the document" to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" Synonym(s): better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate Antonym(s): aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" Synonym(s): rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Amend \A*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amending}.] [F. amender, L. emendare; e (ex) + mendum, menda, fault, akin to Skr. minda personal defect. Cf. {Emend}, {Mend}.] To change or modify in any way for the better; as, (a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like; (b) by supplying deficiencies; (c) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Amend \Amend"\ ([adot]m[ecr]nd"), v. i. To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve. [bd]My fortune . . . amends.[b8] --Sir P. Sidney.