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  Amend \A*mend"\ ([.a]*m[e^]nd"), v. i.
     To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or
     morals; to improve. "My fortune . . . amends." --Sir P.
     Sidney.
     [1913 Webster]

  Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emended; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Emending.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault,
     blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. Amend, Mend.]
     To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make
     corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by
     textual criticism, generally verbal.