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emend

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Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

e=mend

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb emend has 1 sense

emend(v = verb.change) - make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

emend, v. t. [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. émender. 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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OXFORD DICTIONARY

emend, v.tr. edit (a text etc.) to remove errors and corruptions.

Derivative

emendation n. emendator n. emendatory adj.

Etymology

ME f. L emendare (as E-, menda fault)

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THESAURUS

emend

acculturate, advance, alter, ameliorate, amend, better, blue-pencil, boost, bring forward, civilize, compensate, correct, edify, edit, educate, elevate, emendate, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give satisfaction, go straight, improve, improve upon, lard, lift, make all square, make an improvement, make good, make right, meliorate, mend, nurture, pay reparations, polish, promote, put right, put straight, put to rights, raise, recense, recompense, rectify, redact, redraft, redress, refine upon, reform, remedy, remunerate, requite, retouch, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, right, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, socialize, straighten out, transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift, work over