单词 | amend |
释义 | amend (once / 182 pages) v When you amend something, you correct or improve it. If you confused your audience when you gave your speech, don't be afraid to amend what you said. Amend can also describe adding amendments to an official document, such as a constitution or law. If politicians in your state want to address the growing number of home foreclosures, they might amend the state constitution to include restrictions intended to reduce foreclosures. Amend comes from the Latin word emendare, meaning "to correct, free from fault." WORD FAMILYamend: amendable, amendatory, amended, amending, amendment, amends+/amended: unamended/amendment: amendments USAGE EXAMPLESBranstad spokesman Ben Hammes says the group’s accountant is still gathering information on the contributors and plans to file an amended return disclosing them. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Branstad administration, which promised huge taxpayer savings, offered them more money through an amended rate. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) He noted that Nevada law bans the state Legislature from amending any ballot initiative for three years after its passage. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v make amendments to amend the document Hyper revise make revisions in 2v set straight or right Syn|Hyper rectify, remediate, remedy, repair correct, rectify, right make right or correct 3v make better Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate get better aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen make worse alleviate, assuage, palliate, relieve provide physical relief, as from pain aid, helpimprove the condition of regenerate, revitalizerestore strength enrichmake better or improve in quality build up, developchange the use of and make available or usable turn aroundimprove dramatically helpimprove; change for the better upgradeto improve what was old or outdated conditionput into a better state emendmake improvements or corrections to iron out, put right, straighten outsettle or put right enhancemake better or more attractive bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch onrestore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken reformmake changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices reformimprove by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition beautify, embellish, fancify, prettifymake more beautiful buildimprove the cleansing action of hone, perfectmake perfect or complete down, fine-tune, polish, refineimprove or perfect by pruning or polishing distill, make pure, purify, sublimateremove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation fructifymake productive or fruitful lift, raiseinvigorate or heighten advancedevelop further upgradegive better travel conditions to educategive an education to groom, neatencare for one's external appearance curry, dress, groomgive a neat appearance to soothecause to feel better bring around, cure, healprovide a cure for, make healthy again comfort, easelessen pain or discomfort; alleviate redevelopchange the plans for the use of (land) fill out, round outmake bigger or better or more complete optimise, optimizemake optimal; get the most out of; use best choke, throttlereduce the air supply reconditionbring into an improved condition follow upincrease the effectiveness or success of by further action retouch, touch upalter so as to produce a more desirable appearance rejuvenatemake younger or more youthful fiddle, tinkertry to fix or mend fillplug with a substance patch, piecerepair by adding pieces cobblerepair or mend point, repointrepair the joints of bricks trouble-shoot, troubleshootsolve problems patch, patch upmend by putting a patch on dress up, window-dressmake something appear superficially attractive slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate, tittivatemake neat, smart, or trim brush up, polish, polish up, round, round offbring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state over-refine, overrefinerefine too much or with excess of subtlety rectify, refinereduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities purgerid of impurities feed, fertilise, fertilizeprovide with fertilizers or add nutrients to resole, soleput a new sole on revamp, vampprovide (a shoe) with a new vamp heel, reheelput a new heel on settleestablish or develop as a residence polish, shine, smooth, smoothenmake (a surface) shine darnrepair by sewing benefit, do goodbe beneficial for socialise, socializetrain for a social environment groom, prepare, traineducate for a future role or function co-educate, coeducateeducate persons of both sexes together schooleducate in or as if in a school civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school, trainteach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment become, suitenhance the appearance of alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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