Amend vs Med - What's the difference?
amend | med |
To make better.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
*, II.2.6.ii:
To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
(informal) Medical.
(informal, chiefly, in the plural) medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
(UK, dialect) may; might
* Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
As a verb amend
is to make better.As an abbreviation med is
(degree ) master of education.amend
English
Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- 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 .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .
Synonyms
* ameliorate * correct * improve * See also * See alsoReferences
* *Anagrams
*med
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from medical.Adjective
(-)- I'm in med school.
Noun
(en noun)- He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds .
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)- You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.