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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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             Mar not the thing that can not be amended. --Shak.
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             An instant emergency, granting no possibility for
             revision, or opening for amended thought. --De
                                                  Quincey.
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             We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by
             wedding her to a Norman.             --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   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.
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   Syn: To Amend, Emend, Correct, Reform, Rectify.

   Usage: 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.
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