to emend

Examples

• All

• The third draft emended this assertion to say that the church of Christ "subsists in" (subsistit in) the Catholic Church.

  Academic text (2008)

• What seems a throwaway phrase then becomes the crux of the matter: Who knew how to emend the Zifar in its medieval context?

  Academic text (2004)

• Her passion, then, forces the reader to emend the interpretation of the initial description.

  Academic text (1997)

• What were the mechanics of the process of socialization by which people came to know and be predisposed to emend this and other works?

  Academic text (2004)

• I thank Frank Sommer for emending those from Latin texts.

  Academic text (1993)

• When the council discussed the emended text, some bishops called for a return to the original text, which said, "The Church of Christ is the Catholic Church."

  Academic text (2008)

• One of the luxuries of the Web is seeing an idea you've written about emended and expanded by another writer.

  Blog text (24)

• "The plan was now for the Deputy Chair and Deputy Director to finish off the drafting, and once complete, this emended version of the Report would then be circulated electronically to us all for final comments."

  Academic text (2007)

• After all, his lifelong effort to reform the notion of substance envisioned a revival of the Aristotelian metaphysics of form and matter within a more defensible physics: an "emended peripatetic philosophy," as he called it.

  Academic text (2016)

• The editor will emend the manuscript to correct any typographical errors.

Synonyms

E

to edit

vsto emend

337 1.5

To change text, video or audio to make it better

is focused on removing errors in text rather than editing images or audio

R

to revise

vsto emend

179 3.4

Change a piece of writing to correct mistakes and make it better

focuses on removing errors in text rather than broader rewrites

A

to amend

vsto emend

119 3.9

To make small changes to a document, for example a law or statement, to correct mistakes

is used for correcting or improving texts specifically, not changing laws or statements

C

to copyedit

vsto emend

• Specialized

4.4

Edit written text to correct grammar, spelling, and style

focuses on removing errors in text rather than just grammar and style

Antonyms

D

to damage

885 1.4

To harm something so it becomes less useful, valuable, or healthy

How Correct

to emend

• Formal

1 8.1

to revise

179 3.4

to edit

337 1.5

to adjust

317 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology