Emend

emend
    v 1: make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended
         in the second edition"
    

Emend \E*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Emending}.] [L. emendare; e out + menda, mendum, fault,
   blemish: cf. F. ['e]mender. Cf. {Amend}, {Mend}.]
   To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make
   corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by
   textual criticism, generally verbal.

   Syn: To amend; correct; improve; better; reform; rectify. See
        {Amend}.
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "emend":
      acculturate, advance, alter, ameliorate, amend, better,
      blue-pencil, boost, bring forward, civilize, compensate, correct,
      edify, edit, educate, elevate, emendate, enhance, enlighten,
      enrich, fatten, favor, forward, foster, give satisfaction,
      go straight, improve, improve upon, lard, lift, make all square,
      make an improvement, make good, make right, meliorate, mend,
      nurture, pay reparations, polish, promote, put right, put straight,
      put to rights, raise, recense, recompense, rectify, redact,
      redraft, redress, refine upon, reform, remedy, remunerate, requite,
      retouch, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, right, set right,
      set straight, set to rights, set up, socialize, straighten out,
      transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift, work over