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amendverb to make bettertrying to amend the situation of the striking workers by supplying them with minimal food supplies ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, help, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine, upgrade correct, emend, rectify, reform, remediate, remedyedit, fine-tune, redraft, refurbish, rehab, rehabilitate, revamp, revise, reworkbeef (up), boost, fortify, intensify, reinforce(also reenforce), strengthenfine, hone, polishretouch, touch up worsen damage, endamage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, spoil, tarnish, vitiateblemish, blight, deface, disfigure, flaw, mardiminish, lessen, lower, reduce to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations fromthe Bill of Rights was adopted in an effort to amend a constitution that seemed to many to be deficient in guaranteeing individual rights correct, debug, emend, rectify, red-pencil, reform, remedy redraft, redraw, restyle, revise, rework, rewriteblue-pencil, cut, shortenredress, rightameliorate, better, improveperfect, polish, touch upfix, mend, repairadjust, modulate, regulatealter, change, modify damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoilaggravate, worsen to change one's behavior or character for the betterthe judge had heard the defendant promise before that he would amend mend, reform, shape up, straighten (up or out) behave, regeneratebetter, improve clean up one's act backslide, regress correct, rectify, emend, remedy, redress, amend, reform, revise mean to make right what is wrong.correct implies taking action to remove errors, faults, deviations, defects.correct your spelling rectify implies a more essential changing to make something right, just, or properly controlled or directed.rectify a misguided policy emend specifically implies correction of a text or manuscript.emend a text remedy implies removing or making harmless a cause of trouble, harm, or evil.set out to remedy the evils of the world redress implies making compensation or reparation for an unfairness, injustice, or imbalance.redress past social injustices amend, reform, revise imply an improving by making corrective changes, amend usually suggesting slight changesamend a law , reform implying drastic changeplans to reform the court system , and revise suggesting a careful examination of something and the making of necessary changes.revise the schedule in the 13th century |