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amend | anend |

As a verb amend

is to make better.

As an adverb anend is

on end; in an upright position or anend can be right; continuously.

As an interjection anend is

(dialectal|interrogatory) how; come again; say what.

amend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make better.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
  • * Shakespeare
  • Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
  • To become better.
  • (obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
  • But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
  • *, II.2.6.ii:
  • he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .
  • To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
  • Synonyms

    * ameliorate * correct * improve * See also * See also

    References

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    Anagrams

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    anend

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • On end; in an upright position.
  • Etymology 2

    Alteration of anent.

    Alternative forms

    *

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (dialectal, interrogatory) How; come again; say what.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Right; continuously.