Crossword clues for amend
amend
- Modify, as legislation
- Make fixes to
- Improve upon
- Change one's act?
- Alter (text)
- Update, perhaps
- Tweak the Constitution
- Revise, as legislation
- Revise, as a constitution
- Modify, as a motion
- Formally modify
- Change, as bylaws
- Change, as bills
- Change, as a parliamentary bill
- Change the wording, e.g
- Change the law
- Change a statute
- Bill ___ ("FoxTrot" cartoonist)
- Alter legislation
- Alter for the better
- Add to, as the Constitution
- Add a codicil to, say
- Add a change to
- ''FoxTrot'' cartoonist Bill
- Update, as a statute
- Tweak, perhaps
- Tweak, as a bill
- Say a different way
- Rewrite, as part of a bill
- Revise, as the US Constitution
- Revise, as the Constitution
- Revise, as a law
- Revise a contract
- Put riders on, say
- Put a new clause into, perhaps
- Modify, like the Constitution
- Modify, as a document
- Modify, as a charter
- Modify legally
- Make House modifications, say?
- Make changes to, like a bill in Congress
- Make a major change
- Limelight sharer
- Improve one's constitution?
- Improve by changing
- Formally revise
- Fix, ostensibly
- Fix the Constitution
- Fix for the better
- Fix a law
- Enhance through change
- Edit the Constitution
- Congressionally change
- Change, as the US Constitution
- Change, as legislation
- Change, as a contract
- Change, as a constitution
- Change, as a charter
- Change the wording
- Change the terms of
- Change on the floor?
- Change legislatively
- Change a law
- Change a contract, e.g
- Change a contract
- Change (a will)
- Attach a codicil to
- Alter, constitutionally
- Alter, as by-laws
- Alter, as an agreement
- Add to the bill, perhaps
- Add to or take from
- Add some language to, say
- Add a rider to, perhaps
- Add a clause to, say
- Add a clause to, e.g
- Add a clause to
- Add a bylaw to, say
- Change for the better
- Fix up
- Edit, as text
- Modify, as a law
- Revise for the better
- Rephrase
- Correct
- Change, as a motion
- Switch around
- Touch up
- Change a bill, say
- Change, as the Constitution
- Better
- Make better
- Rework
- Improve, in a way
- Alter to make better
- Add to or subtract from
- Formally change
- Set right
- Rectify
- Doctor
- Not leave as is
- Put a rider on, e.g.
- Add a new article to, maybe
- Reform oneself
- Make changes in
- Add to, perhaps
- Add a rider to, say
- Update, say
- Put a rider on, say
- Ameliorate
- Fiddle with
- Change the Constitution
- Restructure
- Repair
- Revise, as a bill
- Set to rights
- Change a bit
- Alter, as the Constitution
- Make changes to, as the Constitution
- Alter a bill
- Mark tucks into a scotch - that's better
- Make small improvements to a motorway before completion
- Make small changes to
- Make right
- Make minor improvements
- Make minor changes to
- Correct interpretation of noon?
- Welsh politician's objective to improve
- Alter the last word at end of screed
- Revise commercial involving soldiers
- Better sort of dash back — joiner’s outside
- Set straight
- Straighten out
- Put right
- Square things?
- Improve, as text
- Tweak, as text
- Change, as a law
- Modify, in Congress
- Make a change to
- Change text
- Modify, as the Constitution
- Change, as text
- Change, as a bill in Congress
- Make some changes to
- "FoxTrot" cartoonist Bill
- Tweak, say
- Modify, as a bill
- Modify formally
- Make improvements to
- Vary (legislation)
- Improve a text
- Change, as a will
- Change formally
- Alter, as a bill
- Add to, as a bill
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amend \A*mend"\ ([.a]*m[e^]nd"), v. i.
To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or
morals; to improve. ``My fortune . . . amends.''
--Sir P.
Sidney.
Amend \A*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amended; p. pr. & vb. n. Amending.] [F. amender, L. emendare; e (ex) + mendum, menda, fault, akin to Skr. minda personal defect. Cf. Emend, Mend.] 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.
Usage: These words agree in the idea of bringing things into a more perfect state. We correct (literally, make straight) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "to free from faults, rectify," from Old French amender (12c.), from Latin emendare "to correct, free from fault," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + menda "fault, blemish," from PIE *mend- "physical defect, fault" (cognates: Sanskrit minda "physical blemish," Old Irish mennar "stain, blemish," Welsh mann "sign, mark").\n
\nSupplanted in senses of "repair, cure" by its shortened offspring mend (v.). Meaning "to add to legislation" (ostensibly to correct or improve it) is recorded from 1777. Related: Amended; amending.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To make better.
WordNet
v. make amendments to; "amend the document"
to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: worsen]
set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [syn: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair]
Wikipedia
Amend as a verb means to change or modify something, as in:
- Constitutional amendment, a change to the constitution of a nation or a state
- Amend (motion), a motion to modify a pending main motion in parliamentary procedure
- Amend, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
Amend as a surname may refer to:
- Bill Amend (born 1962), American cartoonist
- Eric Amend (born 1965), former tennis player
In parliamentary procedure, the motion to amend is used to modify another motion. An amendment could itself be amended. A related procedure is filling blanks in a motion.
Usage examples of "amend".
Constitution, which, it is submitted, was merely the power to amend the delegated grants, and these were obtained by the separate and independent action of each State acceding to the Union.
Then the cure, finding himself thus amerced in fines and amends, said to the judge.
And he insisted on making amends for his imposture the day before an imposture, he pointed out, that had singularly failed due to their collective skills by ordering bumpers of arrack punch.
For if any of the commoners were to make avowry for beasts taken in the common pasture it would then follow that if the Inquest were to pass against the plaintiff, he who avowed the taking in the common pasture would have the return of the beasts and the amends, and not the lord of the pasture, and that would be improper.
He was grateful for her forgiveness, and made amends by acceding to her wishes in regard to mixing with people he found uncongenial and visiting places which held no interest for him, such as dining with Madame de Brocages and running from church to church.
Although Bushido forbade Sano to contradict his lord, he had to amend this bizarre distortion of the facts.
Next day a great number of citizens represented, in another petition, that the pavement of the city and liberties was often damaged, by being broken up for the purposes of amending or new-laying water-pipes belonging to the proprietors of water-works, and praying that provision might be made in the bill then depending, to compel those proprietors to make good any damage that should be done to the pavement by the leaking or bursting of the water-pipes, or opening the pavement for alterations.
But though the king, by detaining James in the English court, had shown himself somewhat deficient in generosity, he made ample amends by giving that prince an excellent education, which afterwards qualified him, when he mounted the throne, to reform in some measure the rude and barbarous manners of his native country.
State laws regulating direct primaries were amended so as to enable voters participating in primaries to designate their preference for one of several party candidates for a senatorial seat: and nominations unofficially effected thereby were transmitted to the legislature.
Van Winkle moved to amend so that a majority of all the members elected to each House should be empowered to remove the disability, instead of two-thirds as required by the amendment.
It is tempting to conclude that there was an element of remorse and even guilt in this charity - perhaps an attempt to make amends to the enserfed ranks of people from which Praskovya came.
Europe know of the amends I owe to the greatest genius our continent has produced.
She told me I had insulted her grievously, and that unless I made amends I should feel her vengeance.
I promised to copy them all out, and added that I had spent the whole night in amending the present part.
Bragadin, to whom I told the whole story begging him to press for some signal amends.