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Word entry · 5 letters

amend

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"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

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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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