Emend

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Emending}.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault,
     blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. {Amend}, {Mend}.]
     To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make
     corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by
     textual criticism, generally verbal.


  
     Syn: To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See
          {Amend}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emend
       v : make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended
           in the second edition"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "emend":
     acculturate, advance, alter, ameliorate, amend, better,
     blue-pencil, boost, bring forward, civilize, compensate, correct,
     edify, edit, educate, elevate, emendate, enhance, enlighten,
     enrich, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give satisfaction,
     go straight, improve, improve upon, lard, lift, make all square,
     make an improvement, make good, make right, meliorate, mend,
     nurture, pay reparations, polish, promote, put right, put straight,
     put to rights, raise, recense, recompense, rectify, redact,
     redraft, redress, refine upon, reform, remedy, remunerate, requite,
     retouch, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, right, set right,
     set straight, set to rights, set up, socialize, straighten out,
     transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift, work over