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EMEND
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they emend ... he / she / it emends
Past simple: emended
-ing form: emending
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make improvements or corrections to
Example:
the text was emended in the second edition
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "emend" is one way to...):
ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something