Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Emend   Listen
Emend

verb
(past & past part. emended; pres. part. emending)
1.
Make improvements or corrections to.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Emend" Quotes from Famous Books



... and t.B. emend so as to make lines 9 and 10 read: Never in his life, earlier or later, had he, the hell-thane, found a braver hero.—They argue that Beowulf's companions had done nothing to merit such encomiums as ...
— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin
... the Phocians'; for this is not the point, nor is it what would be inferred from the fact that there was only a five-days' interval between the speech of Aeschines and the capitulation of the Phocians. There is no need to emend to [Greek: ...
— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 • Demosthenes


Words linked to "Emend" :   ameliorate, meliorate, amend, better, improve


Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com