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emend

verb as in correct

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Bowman lived in New York, and had no children—surely it wasn’t much to ask for him to emend a plan?

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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.

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

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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.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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