Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An act of righting a wrong; compensation. · Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).
To make better; improve. · To become better. · To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.). · To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.
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