Word Meanings - EMEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in ; to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal. Syn. -- To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMEND)

• Better
• Meliorate
• improve
• amend
• emend
• ameliorate
• rectify
• reform
• Correct Chasten
• punish
• redress
• set right
• Rectify
• Straighten
• correct
• a need
• better
• adjust
• regulate
• rearrange
• remodel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMEND)

• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to EMEND)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• 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.
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• 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,
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• RIGHT
  1. In a right manner. 2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• 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
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.