Usually means: Make changes to improve something.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word amend:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. amend: Merriam-Webster
  2. amend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amend, amend: Wordnik
  7. amend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Amend, amend: Wiktionary
  9. amend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. amend: Dictionary.com
  13. amend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. amend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Amend (motion), Amend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Amend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. amend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. amend: Rhymezone
  19. amend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. amend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. amend: FreeDictionary.org
  22. amend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. amend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. amend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. amend: Merriam-Webster

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. amend: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. amend: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. amend: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. amend: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. AMEND: Acronym Finder

(Note: See amendable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make better; improve.
verb:  (intransitive) To become better.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
verb:  (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
noun:  (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (informal, of a document, usually in the plural) Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”). [An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.]

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