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amend
English
Etymology
From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ?mend? (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /??m?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
amend (third-person singular simple present amends, present participle amending, simple past and past participle amended)
- (transitive) To make better; improve.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,[1]
- Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;
- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 13,[2]
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,[1]
- (intransitive) To become better.
- (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[3]
- Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls
- That stay his cure: their malady convinces
- The great assay of art; but at his touch—
- Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand—
- They presently amend.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[3]
- (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
- 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 23, p. 46,[4]
- The following motions cannot be amended:
- 1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990,[5]
- It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]
- 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 23, p. 46,[4]
Synonyms
- ameliorate
- correct
- improve
- See also Thesaurus:improve
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Related terms
Translations
Noun
amend (plural amends)
- (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
References
- amend at OneLook Dictionary Search
- amend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- amend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Edman, Mande, Medan, ad-men, admen, deman, maned, menad, named
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develop
English
Alternative forms
- develope (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from French développer, from Middle French desveloper, from Old French desveloper, from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare, Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vlopp?, *wlopp? (“to wrap”) ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrappan?, *wlappan? (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) [1]. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). The word acquired its modern meaning from the 17th-century belief that an egg contains the animal in miniature and matures by growing larger and shedding its envelopes.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??v?l.?p/
- (Indian English) IPA(key): /?d?v.l?p/, /d??v?.l?p/
- Rhymes: -?l?p
Verb
develop (third-person singular simple present develops, present participle developing, simple past and past participle developed or (archaic, rare) developt)
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- 1868-1869, Robert Owen, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
- All insects […] acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed.
- 1868-1869, Robert Owen, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- We must develop our own resources to the utmost.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- (transitive) To create.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
Usage notes
- Objects: plan, software, program, product, story, idea.
Derived terms
- co-develop, codevelop
Related terms
- developing
- development
Translations
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