EMEND Definition & Meaning

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emend

[ih-mend]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to edit or change (a text).
to free from faults or errors; correct.

emend

/ ɪˈ��ɛ�Ի� /

verb

(tr) to make corrections or improvements in (a text) by critical editing

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

emendable adjective
nonemendable adjective
unemendable adjective
unemended adjective
��ˈ��Ի岹�� adjective

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of emend¹

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French emender ) < Latin ŧ��Ի�� “to correct,” equivalent to ŧ- e- ¹ + mend(um) “fault” + -�� infinitive suffix

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of emend¹

C15: from Latin ŧ��Ի�� to correct, from ŧ- out + mendum a mistake

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Synonym Study

See amend.

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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?

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And it grows increasingly clear that the document in Voth’s hands has itself been “doctored”—emended, rectified, ardently ministered to, but also violated.

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“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”

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In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.

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Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.

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Emeline emendate

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