emend

Example Sentences

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And it grows increasingly clear that the document in Voth’s hands has itself been “doctored”—emended, rectified, ardently ministered to, but also violated.

From The New Yorker

“They can’t leave them,” said I, and then, emending: “We. We cannot be.”

From Literature

In his 1897 novel, “An Antarctic Mystery,” he saw fit to emend Poe, rescuing Pym from the boiling sea only to kill him off on a lodestone mountain.

From The New Yorker

Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.

From Literature

Then his naturalization was cancelled, and the form on file with the court was emended to read “member of the yellow race.”

From The New Yorker