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amend
[ uh-mend ]
verb (used with object)
- to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure:
Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
- to change for the better; improve:
to amend one's ways.
- to remove or correct faults in; rectify.
Synonyms: remedy, better, ameliorate, correct
Antonyms: worsen
verb (used without object)
- to grow or become better by reforming oneself:
He amends day by day.
amend
/ əˈmɛnd /
verb
- to improve; change for the better
- to remove faults from; correct
- to alter or revise (legislation, a constitution, etc) by formal procedure
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Derived Forms
- aˈmender, noun
- aˈmendable, adjective
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Other Words From
- a·mend·a·ble adjective
- a·mend·er noun
- non·a·mend·a·ble adjective
- re·a·mend verb
- un·a·mend·a·ble adjective
- un·a·mend·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of amend1
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Example Sentences
Since then, Voice of San Diego has discovered that Barrios did not disclose income he earned before starting his City Hall job, forcing him to amend an economic interest disclosure, and did not disclose his overlapping public- and private-sector pay.
The amended bill would ease the penalties for officers convicted of misconduct in a state where police discipline is secret.
The next month, the minimal requirements for manufacturing the polio vaccine were amended and continued to be updated as the science advanced.
The bill would amend Section 230 to give larger platforms just 24 hours to remove content determined by a court to be unlawful.
The company in its amended filing noted that it has finally determined that Alexander Moore, Spencer Rascoff and Alexandra Schiff, who were recently hired as new independent directors of the company, are in fact independent.
Earlier this week, Andrew Keatts and Jesse Marx report, Barrios quietly amended one of his statements of economic interest with San Diego to reflect the three days when he received overlapping salaries.
The campaign did, however, file Barrios’ amended disclosure from when he was leaving his position in Gómez’s office.
In 2017, the law was amended to specify that it allowed the temporary suspension of telecom services.
After VOSD’s Andrew Keatts and Jesse Marx contacted him about the disclosures, campaign spokesman Tony Manolatos said Barrios would be voluntarily amending his financial forms.
The clauses must not be amended from the EC wording, though the parties can include additional business-related clauses.
Anger about Citizens United has spurred a movement to amend the Constitution to reverse the opinion.
As a result, Perry said the group is currently looking into whether to amend its FEC report to make that clear.
However, Denham has said he will still try to amend the bill on the floor of the House.
Were they to amend their posture, they would only be further isolating themselves.
Well, let me slightly amend that: With this Supreme Court, you never know about the future.
Recently, two bills to amend Israel's Basic Law: The Government passed first readings in the Knesset.
He was really appearing before this crowd to push his idea of a convention to amend the Constitution.
Political parties tried crassly to make deals to amend the Chief Rabbinate Law, aiming to help particular candidates.
But unless steps are taken to amend the Senate bill, that promise will not be kept.
If Israeli negotiators were to offer to return the Golan Heights and amend the Law of Return, would he break ranks with them?
Should it amend the ESM treaty to make any restructuring easier?
Above all, we need to amend the rape law to make it punishable by death.
States should rarely amend their constitutions, and such frivolity is certainly not worthy, especially from conservatives.
Bork wanted to amend the Constitution to fight activist judges.
The more appropriate campaign should be directed at Congress, to amend the “material support” law to limit its draconian reach.
In November, Marylanders will vote on Question 6, an initiative to amend the state constitution to allow same-sex marriage.
We might amend the Constitution to establish judicial term limits.
It is a shame and an embarrassment that some in the GOP now want to amend it for starkly political reasons.
Apparently, McChrystal made no effort to head off or amend the story.
He continues to push forward in an attempt to amend the Pelosi bill to restrict abortion even further.
The Federal Reserve Board reserves the right to add to, alter, or amend these regulations.
In order to pass a law, nine states had to agree in its favor; in order to amend the Articles, all thirteen states had to agree.
I doubt it, sire, and I advise you to send away this libertine St. Luc, who is resolved not to amend.
An important bill was passed, entitled "An act to amend the act for the abolition of slavery."
When it was over, poor Russell seemed to amend, and the removal of the perpetual pain gave him relief.
Oh but, sir, I was just striving so hard to amend, and it seems cruel that I should be checked at once.
Therefore fulfill the duties laid upon you; repent as long as you are able to amend.
The gentleman's votes sustained that power, in every form in which the various propositions to amend presented it.
I did want to amend my testimony of yesterday in one small particular.
Thus we may amend by art what nature, if left to herself, would mar.
Still Mr. Pater, if he had lived, would have been obliged to amend his observation a little.
Who judgeth well, well God them send; / Who judgeth evil, God them amend.
Of course, I do not mean to be understood here as objecting to any temperate and earnest attempt by men or women to amend law.
It was manifestly the duty of the House of Representatives to amend the bill, but now a great scare was got up.
He was the victim of the false order, which those men and women at the school sought to amend.
The first question is on the motion of the gentleman from Missouri, to amend the proposition of my colleague.
Whatever our actions may be here, every proposition to amend the Constitution must come before the people.
I have no doubt whatever of the right of a Senator on this floor to move to amend this resolution.
Is it proposed so to amend the Constitution as to take from the people of the States this right of self-defence?
When we do, then, amend the Constitution, it ought to be in the spirit of right and justice to all men and to all sections.
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