amend, emend Definition

amend
verb

amended, amending
1. To correct, improve or make minor changes to (especially a book, document, etc). Compare emend.

Thesaurus: correct, rectify, emend, fix, better, remedy, revise, modify, qualify, repair, redress; Antonym: worsen, impair.

Derivative: amendable
adj

Idiom: make amends for something

To make up for or compensate for (some injury, insult, etc).

Etymology: 14c: from French amender, from Latin emendare.

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A word often confused with this one is emend, which refers specifically to the correction of errors in written texts.