amend

Meanings

1. To make better; improve.
2. To become better.
3. To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
4. To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
5. To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

1. An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
2. Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.