Synonyms 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.

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

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

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1. amend

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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, amend, 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, amend, 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

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Correct
   • Revise

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. amendverb

   Synonyms:
   improve, mend, emend, correct, rectify, reform, AMELIORATE

2. amendverb

   Synonyms:
   improve, mend, become better

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1. List of paraphrases for "amend":

   modify, amending, alter, change, amendment, modifying, amended, revise, modification, altering, changing, vary, amendments, amends, adjust, modified, modifies, edit, revised, changes, changed, replace, revision

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1. Justice Minister Ronald Warsal:

   We do not have a fixed number yet as to the number of seats, but the amendment will be to the constitution to say parliament will prescribe a system which will include reserved seats for women, 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.

2. Daniel Hanson:

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

3. Wolfango Piccoli:

   Davutoglu's likely early exit as party leader and PM constitutes another episode that show that Erdogan's dominance over the AKP and the executive is absolute and unchallenged, in the short term policy paralysis will prevail and then, once a new party leader is elected, a more incisive effort to amend the constitution could ensue.

4. Steve Vickers:

   I suggest we look very carefully and calmly at this case before we afford this incident too much priority or seek to amend the Hong Kong threat profile, the timing of the arrests is obviously of interest: especially in this politically charged week before the LegCo vote.

5. Rand Paul:

   I seek to amend this legislation not because I take lynching lightly, but because I take it seriously, and this legislation does not.