What are some opposite words for amend?
Antonyms for amend
əˈmɛndamend
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
amend
To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.
Antonyms:
aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiateSynonyms:
advance, ameliorate, better, cleanse, correct, emend, improve, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform, repair
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Princeton's WordNet
amendverb
make amendments to
"amend the document"
Synonyms:
better, improve, repair, remedy, meliorate, remediate, ameliorate, rectifybetter, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorateverb
to make better
"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
Synonyms:
better, improve, repair, remedy, meliorate, remediate, break, ameliorate, rectifyrectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amendverb
set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
Synonyms:
right, reform, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, fix, bushel, reanimate, mend, vivify, renovate, improve, correct, quicken, regenerate, reclaim, resort, restore, ameliorate, relieve, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, refine, repair, animate, better, furbish up, meliorate, revive, doctor, indemnify
How to use amend in a sentence?
Our base case has been that the budget will be used as leverage to amend back parts of the moratorium.
We will work with Congress to amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice, removing the prosecution of sexual assaults and related crimes from the military chain of command, the President spoke with Secretary Austin about these issues and fully supports The President approach.
In hindsight, I wish that had not become law, but it is the law, and the only chance we have is either to amend it or for the courts to say that it has an unconstitutional foundation.
We hope the Senate will support it as is and not amend it to be further restrictive.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif heard our reservations against the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2016. He promised to amend the law so that it doesn’t contravene the teachings of the holy Koran.
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