Antonyms for emend

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ih-mend

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈmɛnd

Definition of emend

Origin : c.1400, from Latin emendare "to free from fault," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + mendum (nominative menda) "fault, blemish" (see amend). Related: Emended; emending.

verb correct

Example sentences :

Partly with the help of Toup, we may emend this corrupt passage as follows: , , .
Extract from : « On the Sublime » by Longinus

Some critical scholar of eminence should be called upon to emend or explain this mysterious passage.
Extract from : « Eothen » by A. W. Kinglake

Emend′als, funds set apart for repairs in the accounts of the Inner Temple.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various

That the last line is nonsense was clear to every one; but no critic ever could emend it.
Extract from : « The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays » by Thomas Keightley

To emend the Vulgate by the Hebrew and Greek is exactly what the heretics seek to do.
Extract from : « A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4 » by Henry Charles Lea

Second, all critics have agreed to condemn the digression in which Theobald advertised his ability to emend Greek texts.
Extract from : « Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) » by Lewis Theobald

The alteration is very slight, affecting only one letter, and may be due to error in transcription or to mere desire to emend.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 » by Alexander Maclaren

Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
Extract from : « A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger » by Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand

Synonyms for emend

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