Verb

(en verb)

To make better.

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* Shakespeare

Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .

* Sir Walter Scott

We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.

To become better.

(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:

But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .

*, II.2.6.ii:

he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .

To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

Verb

(en verb)

To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

* (rfdate)

She accepted of a treat.

* (rfdate), Psalms 20:3

The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.

To admit to a place or a group.

The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.

To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

I accept the fact that Christ lived.

To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

To endure patiently.

I accept my punishment.

(transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.

To receive officially

to accept the report of a committee

To receive something willingly.

I accept .