Amend vs Apology - What's the difference?
amend | apology |
To make better.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
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To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).
A formal justification, defence.
Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
* Charles Dickens
As a verb amend
is to make better.As a noun apology is
an expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).amend
English
Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- 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 .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .
Synonyms
* ameliorate * correct * improve * See also * See alsoReferences
* *Anagrams
*apology
English
(wikipedia apology)Alternative forms
* apologie (archaic)Noun
(apologies)- What he said really hurt my feelings, but his apology sounded so sincere that I couldn't help but forgive him.
- The CEO made a public apology for the scandal, and promised full cooperation with the authorities.
- The Apology of Socrates.
- a poor apology for a hotel room
- He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains.