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Amend vs Reinforce - What's the difference?

amend | reinforce |

In lang=en terms the difference between amend and reinforce

is that amend is to make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing while reinforce is to encourage a behavior or idea through repeated stimulus.

As verbs the difference between amend and reinforce

is that amend is to make better while reinforce is (senseid)to strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.

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

    Related terms

    * mend * amendment * amends * emend

    References

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    Anagrams

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    reinforce

    English

    Verb

    (reinforc)
  • (senseid)To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
    • He reinforced the handle with a metal rod and a bit of tape.
  • To emphasize or review.
    • The right homework will reinforce and complement the lesson!
  • To encourage a behavior or idea through repeated stimulus.
    • ''Advertising for fast food can reinforce unhealthy dietary tendencies.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (strengthen) strengthen, augment, fortify, buttress, bolster, line * (emphasize) emphasize, review, repeat * (encourage) encourage, reward, instruct, teach, learn