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EMEND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does emend mean?
• EMEND (verb)
The verb EMEND has 1 sense:
1. make improvements or corrections to
Familiarity information: EMEND used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they emend ... he / she / it emends
Past simple: emended
Past participle: emended
-ing form: emending
... he / she / it emends Past simple: emended
Past participle: emended
-ing form: emending
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make improvements or corrections to
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the text was emended in the second edition
Hypernyms (to "emend" is one way to...):
ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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