Word Meanings - AMEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To change or modify in any way for the better; as, by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like; by supplying deficiencies; by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the

Additional info about word: AMEND

To change or modify in any way for the better; as, by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like; by supplying deficiencies; by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. 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 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMEND)

• Ameliorate
• Improve
• raise
• better
• advantage
• promote
• advance
• amend
• rectify
• meliorate
• Better
• Meliorate
• improve
• emend
• ameliorate
• reform
• Correct Chasten
• punish
• redress
• set right
• Mend
• Repair
• restore
• correct
• Reclaim
• Reform
• recal
• recover
• regain
• rescue
• convert

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AMEND)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose

Related words: (words related to AMEND)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.