amend

[a·mend]

When you amend something, you correct or improve it. If you confused your audience when you gave your speech, don't be afraid to amend what you said.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

Verb
set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

Verb
to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

Verb
make amendments to; "amend the document"

v. t.
To change or modify in any way for the better

v. t.
by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;

v. t.
by supplying deficiencies;

v. t.
by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.

v. i.
To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

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.

Mar not the thing that can not be amended.

An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought.

We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.

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. Syn. -- 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.

Amend

A*mend" , v. i. To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve. "My fortune . . . amends." Sir P. Sidney.

To change or modify in any way for the better

To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

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Usage Examples

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

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Other Usage Examples

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.