amend

amend is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To change or modify in any way for the better. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To change or modify in any way for the better
2. transitive verb. by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like
3. transitive verb. by supplying deficiencies
4. transitive verb. by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
5. intransitive verb. To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
6. verb. set straight or right

   "remedy these deficiencies"

   "rectify the inequities in salaries"

   Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair

7. verb. to make better

   "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

   Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate

8. verb. make amendments to

   "amend the document"

Synonyms

rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in amend:

admen, mande, maned, medan, menad, named

Common word forms

amends, amended, amender, amending, amendable, amendment

Words from these letters

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