0 to change the words of a text, especially a law or a legal document: --
1 to change the words of something written, esp. a law or a legal document: --
2 to change something, especially the words of a text: --
amend sth to sth In line 20, 'men' should be amended to 'people'.
They were too hasty to amend or drop initiatives that did not work immediately.
3 to make a change to a law: --
Until the constitution is amended, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.
The proposals would amend the Insolvency Act of 1986 to prevent potentially viable small businesses from being forced into receivership.
amend a bill/law He will try to amend the bill to shift more of the money to conservation.
When people wake up, they might recall or amend these mentations as if they had been experienced during sleep.
Consequently, it is desirable to amend the tree extraction procedure to adequately represent them in the resulting extracted grammar.
Yet despite pressure to amend the legislation, many of the impugned provisions remain.
The actor who is not recognized as making a proposal cannot amend the proposer's offer.
Yet more improvement is possible, hence the next generation of cupholders is amended accordingly; and so on.
Modern agricultural systems have amended some of their properties to increase productivity.
This is easily seen in the context of amending thee and thou.
Thus, the project presented to the congress was amended in significant ways to accommodate the radical convictions of most deputies.
