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

To pull (something) back, aside, or away.

* Hooker

Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.

To take back (a comment, etc).

to withdraw false charges

To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).

To extract (money from an account).

To retreat.

To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.

* 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 201:

Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing , but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.