Word Study
emend
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb emend has 1 sense
- emend(v = verb.change) Array - make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition" is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
emend, v. t. [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. émender. 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.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
emend, v.tr. edit (a text etc.) to remove errors and corruptions.
Derivative
emendation n. emendator n. emendatory adj.
Etymology
ME f. L emendare (as E-, menda fault)
THESAURUS
emend
acculturate, advance, alter, ameliorate, amend, better, blue-pencil, boost, bring forward, civilize, compensate, correct, edify, edit, educate, elevate, emendate, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give satisfaction, go straight, improve, improve upon, lard, lift, make all square, make an improvement, make good, make right, meliorate, mend, nurture, pay reparations, polish, promote, put right, put straight, put to rights, raise, recense, recompense, rectify, redact, redraft, redress, refine upon, reform, remedy, remunerate, requite, retouch, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, right, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, socialize, straighten out, transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift, work over
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