Antonyms for amend
əˈmɛndamend

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. amend

   To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.

   Antonyms:
   aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiate

   Synonyms:
   advance, ameliorate, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform, repair

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. amend

   Antonyms:
   deteriorate, degenerate, neglect, aggravate, tarnish, blemish, spoil, corrupt, vitiate, impair, mar

   Synonyms:
   improve, mend, repair, correct, rectify, better, ameliorate, reform

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Correct
   • Revise

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. amendverb

   make amendments to

   "amend the document"

   Synonyms:
   better, improve, repair, remedy, meliorate, remediate, ameliorate, rectify

2. better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorateverb

   to make better

   "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

   Synonyms:
   better, improve, repair, remedy, meliorate, remediate, break, ameliorate, rectify

3. rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amendverb

   set straight or right

   "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

   Synonyms:
   right, reform, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, fix, bushel, reanimate, mend, vivify, renovate, improve, correct, quicken, regenerate, reclaim, resort, restore, ameliorate, relieve, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, refine, repair, animate, better, furbish up, meliorate, revive, doctor, indemnify

How to use amend in a sentence?

1. Nancy Mace:

   Working to protect the Constitution and due process has been a cornerstone of my work in Congress. Speaker Kevin McCarthy made his commitment today that I will lead the effort to amend the House Rules to provide due process and prevent the politicizing of committee removals in the future.

2. Daniel Hanson:

   Our base case has been that the budget will be used as leverage to amend back parts of the moratorium.

3. Justice Minister Ronald Warsal:

   It has been over 10 years since we have had a woman in parliament ... It is very hard for women to win seats in Vanuatu, so it is better that we amend the constitution.

4. Terrence Collingsworth:

   So we will amend our complaint and we'll see if the defendants want to try to dismiss it again, but we're hoping we are moving closer to getting to trial.

5. Lloyd Austin.Defense:

   We will work with Congress to amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice, removing the prosecution of sexual assaults and related crimes from the military chain of command, the President spoke with Secretary Austin about these issues and fully supports The President approach.

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