amend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.
Inflected forms:
form: amends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: amending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: amend
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: amend
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: amend
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: amendest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: amendedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: amends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: amendeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: amend
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: amend
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: amend
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: amending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: amended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To make better; improve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;
Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.
We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
gloss: To become better.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.
gloss: To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.
he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended.
gloss: To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls
That stay his cure: their malady convinces
The great assay of art; but at his touch—
Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—
They presently amend.
gloss: To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The following motions cannot be amended:
1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990,
It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]
Synonyms: ameliorate
correct
improve
Related words: emend
Derived words: amendability
amendable
amendation
amendful
reamend
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