Verb: amend u'mend
- Make amendments to
"amend the document"
- To make better
"The editor amended the manuscript with his changes";
- better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate, mend
- Correct, fix, improve or make right something that is wrong or defective
"amend the inequities in salaries";
- rectify, remediate, remedy, repair
Sounds like: emend
Derived forms: amends, amended, amending
Type of: alter, change, correct, modify, rectify, revise, right
Antonym: exasperate
Encyclopedia: Amend, Eric