'Emend' definitions:
Definition of 'emend'
From: WordNet
verb
Make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"
Definition of 'Emend'
From: GCIDE
- Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended; p. pr. & vb. n. Emending.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault, blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. Amend, Mend.] To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.
- Syn: To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See Amend. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'emend'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acculturate,
- advance,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- amend,
- better,
- blue-pencil,
- boost,
- bring forward,
- civilize,
- compensate,
- correct,
- edify,
- edit,
- educate,
- elevate,
- emendate,
- enhance,
- enlighten,
- enrich,
- fatten,
- favor,
- forward,
- foster,
- give satisfaction,
- go straight,
- improve,
- improve upon,
- lard,
- lift,
- make all square,
- make an improvement,
- make good,
- make right,
- meliorate,
- mend,
- nurture,
- pay reparations,
- polish,
- promote,
- put right,
- put straight,
- put to rights,
- raise,
- recense,
- recompense,
- rectify,
- redact,
- redraft,
- redress,
- refine upon,
- reform,
- remedy,
- remunerate,
- requite,
- retouch,
- revamp,
- revise,
- rework,
- rewrite,
- right,
- set right,
- set straight,
- set to rights,
- set up,
- socialize,
- straighten out,
- transfigure,
- transform,
- upgrade,
- uplift,
- work over