emend
Verb
Verb Forms: emended, emending, emends
- To make corrections or improvements to text.
- make improvements or corrections to
- "the text was emended in the second edition"
- To correct and revise (text or a document).
Examples
- I asked the Scrabble dictionary to emend my misspelling, but it refused.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English emenden, from Latin ēmendō (“I free from fault”), from ex- (“out”) + mendum (“fault, blemish”). Doublet of amend.
Scrabble Score: 8
emend: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordemend: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
emend: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
emend: valid Words With Friends Word