emendar — meaning in English

English meaning

• amend verb To make formal changes to a document, law, or agreement in order to correct or improve it.
• mend verb To repair something that is broken, torn, or damaged.
• revise verb To change or correct something, especially a piece of writing, in order to improve it.

Senses

emendar is used for these senses in English:

• amend (transitive) To make better; improve.
• amend (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
• emend (transitive) To correct and revise (text or a document).
• mend (archaic) To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
• revise To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.

amend — full definition

1. verb To make formal changes to a document, law, or agreement in order to correct or improve it.
2. verb To improve or correct something more generally.

mend — full definition

1. verb To repair something that is broken, torn, or damaged.
2. verb To put right a fault, error, or bad situation; to improve or correct it.
3. verb Of an illness, injury, or person: to heal or get better.
4. noun A repair, or the place where something has been repaired.
5. noun Used in the phrase "on the mend": recovering, getting better after illness.

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