Meanings (ES + gloss)
corregir • emendar • mejorar • remendar
To make better; improve.
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.
mejorar
To become better.
The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample o…
emendar • enmendar
To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990, It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]
The following motions cannot be amended: