Crossword clues for emend
emend
- Fix a manuscript
- Correct, as a manuscript
- Tweak, as text
- Make scholarly corrections to
- Tinker with text
- Change text
- MAKE revisions
- Improve, as a text
- Polish, in a way
- Improve text
- Correct misspellings, e.g
- Change, as text
- Polish, as text
- Free of mistakes
- Make scholarly revisions, e.g
- Fix a text
- Set to rights
- Revise, as a manuscript
- Fix, as a manuscript
- Change, as a manuscript
- Polish, as prose
- Make fixes to
- Improve, in writing
- Improve by editing
- Correct, as copy
- Correct errata
- Correct a manuscript
- Alter (text)
- Update manuscripts
- Rework text
- Make textual improvements
- Make refinements to
- Improve, as writing
- Free from errors
- Fix, as copy
- Edit text
- Edit copy
- Correct the spelling, e.g
- Change somewhat
- Add a rider
- Word from the Latin for "without fault"
- Upgrade, as text
- Tinker with, as text
- Seek to improve
- Revise editorially
- Rectify, as a report
- Make scholarly revisions in
- Make improvements or corrections to
- Make corrections to written work
- Make corrections in
- Make corrections (var.)
- Make changes to, as copy
- Make a correction
- Improve, textwise
- Improve upon
- Improve copy quality
- Improve a thesis' quality, e.g
- Edit, as an article
- Edit in or out
- Edit a text
- Edit e.g
- Edit critically
- Do text correction on
- Do editing
- Do a rewrite on, perhaps
- Correct the spelling
- Correct or improve
- Alter, as writing
- Alter, as a manuscript
- Adjust, as text
- Add riders
- Touch up, as text
- Tinker with the text
- Fix copy
- Correct, as text
- Improve, in a way
- Better text
- Fiddle with, as a term paper
- Change for the better
- Revise, as text
- Free of errors
- Make a correction to
- Edit, as text
- Alter, as text
- Improve, as text
- Polish prose
- Make improvements to
- Fix, as text
- Free from faults
- Correct a text
- Castigate texts
- Change a text
- Textually alter
- Remove errors from text
- Rectify (text)
- Correct texts
- Make corrections to, as text
- Correct copy
- Correct, as a text
- Castigate a text
- Alter; correct
- Free from defects
- Blue-pencil
- Edit; correct
- Improve a book
- Redact
- Revise a text
- Do editorial work
- Improve a text
- Do some editing
- Improve the text
- Correct, in a way
- Correct/revise (a text)
- Correct tip overwhelms this chap
- Correct objective in Middle East? On the contrary
- Correct me when returning before the finish
- Correct from the first person up to the last
- Correct edition is about people
- Correct and revise
- Correct and revise (text)
- Correct (text)
- Change what anthem and theorem have in common
- Editor recruits staff to do what he does
- Edit concluding section the writer's put in
- Edit (text)
- Press chief engages male staff to edit
- Polish pieces accepted by top journalist
- People employed by editor to edit
- Better people brought in by news boss
- Aim to strangle yours truly? Correct
- Duke giving support to English soldiers? Correct
- Alter spaces in printing first of documents
- The Mendips housing fix
- Make changes to, as text
- Make better
- Cut and paste text
- Make revisions to
- Fix text
- Put right
- Make right
- Change one's story?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended; p. pr. & vb. n. Emending.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. Amend, Mend.] To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.
Syn: To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To correct and revise (''text or a text'').
WordNet
v. make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"
Usage examples of "emend".
Enderby emended with haste, "the picture of a man who looks very much like me, or so I'm told.
For one thing, since Tolkien eventually emended the ending for plural exclusive "we"
Some, however, have thought that the Greek copies of the Septuagint version should be emended from the Hebrew copies.
He had finally got the revised court-martial scene from Blount, and would now have to transmute it into readable prose, emending the author’s stupid lapses of logic, illiterate blunders of language and raspingly ugly style.
And if this is just, here is a Platonist emending Plato, here is a man who saw what Plato did not see, and who did not shrink from correcting so illustrious a master, but preferred truth to Plato.
Obvious misprints have been silently corrected, but in a few cases notes show where emendations have been introduced from Wynkyn de Worde--not that Wynkyn had any more right to emend Caxton than we, but because even a printer's conjecture gains a little sanctity after four centuries.