Definition of amend

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Amend (v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

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Amend :: Amend (v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To make good; to make amends for.
Corrigible :: Corrigible (a.) Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault..
Amendment :: Amendment (n.) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Compensate :: Compensate (v. i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry..
Atone :: Atone (v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime..
Penitent :: Penitent (a.) Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life..
Correction :: Correction (n.) The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement..
Boot :: Boot (n.) Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief..
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..
Bote :: Bote (n.) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain..
Reformation :: Reformation (n.) The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses..
Mendment :: Mendment (n.) Amendment.
Amendable :: Amendable (a.) Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error..
Mends :: Mends (n.) See Amends.
Amende :: Amende (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.
Amend :: Amend (v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;.
Emendable :: Emendable (a.) Corrigible; amendable.
Amendful :: Amendful (a.) Much improving.
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