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Amend vs Delete - What's the difference?

amend | delete |

As a verb amend

is to make better.

As a noun delete is

a key that may be pressed to delete something (including text or files) from a computer.

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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    delete

    English

    (Deletion)

    Noun

    (-)
  • I lost the file when I accidentally hit delete .
  • A remainder of a music or video release.
  • Verb

    (delet)
  • To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
  • (computer) To hide, conceal
  • Synonyms

    * (to get rid of) erase, strike, terminate, cease existence, remove, rub out, strike out, obliterate, cancel, cross out, score, scrub, scrap, scratch, expunge, eliminate, blue-pencil, exclude, squelch

    Antonyms

    * (to get rid of) insert, maintain