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Word entry · 5 letters

amend

Best crossword clue

"Make corrections"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /əˈmɛnd/Part of speech verbSorted ademnStarts with AEnds with D2 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2M3E4N5D

Definitions

  1. set straight or right

Word origin

From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.

Used in a sentence

  • Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.
  • We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
  • But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Make corrections5 letters
02Revise5 letters

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