different between chastise vs amend

English

Alternative forms

• chastize (archaic in British English and rare in American English)

Etymology

From Old French chastier, from Latin castigo. See also the doublets chasten and castigate and cf. also chaste.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?æ?sta?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æsta?z/, /t?æ?sta?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

chastise (third-person singular simple present chastises, present participle chastising, simple past and past participle chastised)

1. To punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment.
   • 1809, Flavius Josephus, The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measures, page 402:

     and if his father had chastised them with whips, they must expect that he would do it with scorpions.

   • 2018, Nyx Smith, Shadowrun Legends: Striper Assassin, Catalyst Game Labs

     “There is a man who must be chastised,” she says softly, lightly. “Chastised in a physical way. It should not be difficult. Not for you.”

2. To castigate; to severely scold or censure (someone).
3. To lightly criticize or correct (someone).
   • 2002, Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, Univ of California Press (?ISBN), page 50:

     While Ellington voiced praise and respect for Benny Goodman and some white bandleaders, he gently chastised others for profiting from “musical-simplification to the 'nth' degree” and “reach[ing] a pleasing musical middle.”

   • 2011, Patricia Colton, The Window Blind, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 496:

     “You're not insensitive,” she lightly chastised. “I love you.” “Love you too.”

   • 2017, Ava Stone, A Scandalous Ruse:

     “Greg,” she lightly chastised. “You're not supposed to move your lips.” “Yes, I know. I'm a horrible subject. But do answer the question, Bella.”

   • 2019, Eliza Ellis, Hers to Kiss, Eliza Ellis

     “You could've trusted me,” Pete gently chastised. “I can handle it.” He sat on the edge of her bed. “I was afraid to, honey. I know how stressed you've been with the camp […] ”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

See also

• punish
• castigate

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)

1. (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.
2. (intransitive) To become better.
3. (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.
4. (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.

5. (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 […]

Synonyms

• ameliorate
• correct
• improve
• See also Thesaurus:improve
• See also Thesaurus:repair

Related terms

Translations

Noun

amend (plural amends)

1. (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