emend

American  

[ih-mend] / ɪˈmɛnd /

verb (used with object)

1. to edit or change (a text).

2. to free from faults or errors; correct.

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emend British  

/ ɪˈmɛnd /

verb

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

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Related Words

See amend.

Other Word Forms

• emendable adjective
• nonemendable adjective
• unemendable adjective
• unemended adjective

Etymology

Origin of emend

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

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker

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

From The New Yorker

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

From Literature

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.

From The New Yorker

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

From Literature