emend
verb (used with object)
to edit or change (a text).
emending
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present participleof emend.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
"It’s rife with typos and misspellings and sprinkled with attempts at emending them."
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014
Impasse," the Governor says, like a finicky lexicographer emending an improper usage, "means no progress.
From Time Magazine Archive
“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
