Verb

(en verb)

To make better.

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* 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.

Verb

(label) To orbit a central point.

To turn on an axis.

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It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

(label) To recur in cycles.

(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :

He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.