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mend- (Latin: defect, blemish).


amend:
1. To free (a person) from faults, correct, reform, turn from wrong, convert.
2. To reform oneself, abandon one's faults or evil ways.
3. In law, to correct (an error committed in a legal process), or rectify (a legal document).
4. To repair or make good (what is broken or damaged).
5. The change from e- to a- took place very early, being found in Old French and Middle English.
amendatory:
Intended or serving to correct or improve something.
amendment:
1. The action of amending, whether in process, or as completed.
2. The removal of a fault; to make a correction or reformation.
3. In a Public Meeting: A proposed alteration in the terms of a resolution submitted to a meeting for adoption; extended to a resolution proposed instead of or in opposition to another; a countermotion.
amendable:
That which can be amended, corrected, bettered, repaired, or make amends for.
amends:
1. Reparation, retribution, restitution, compensation, satisfaction; especially in the phrase, to make amends.
2. Something done or given as compensation for a wrong or sometimes even a perceived wrong.
emend:
1. To free (a thing) from faults, correct (what is faulty), rectify.
2. To remove errors from (the text of a book or document).
3. To make corrections or alteration to improve a text.
emendation:
Improvement by alteration and correction; especially of literary or artistic products, methods of procedure, scientific systems, etc.; a particular instance of such improvement.
mend:
1. To free (a person, his character or habits) from sin or fault; to improve morally; to reform; occasionally, to cure of (a fault).
2. To remove the defects of (a thing); to correct (what is faulty); to improve by correction or alteration.