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amended

/uh-mend/US // əˈmɛnd //UK // (əˈmɛnd) //

修订后的,修正后的,修正的,修正

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
    • : to change for the better; improve: to amend one's ways.
    • : to remove or correct faults in; rectify.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to grow or become better by reforming oneself: He amends day by day.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbimprove, correct
Antonyms

Examples

  • When doctors do fight the claims, Fox said, women seeking amends in civil or criminal court face an uphill battle.

  • Citizen-led Measure H in Encinitas would amend current zoning to allow marijuana retail, cultivation, manufacturing and distribution in specified zones.

  • To significantly change those powers would require statewide voters to amend the constitution.

  • Since completing the 2019-20 season in mid-October, the league’s owners and players have worked to negotiate an amended collective bargaining agreement that accounts for steep projected revenue declines caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • After law enforcement officials expressed concern about the bill, Northam amended it to make it clear that officers can still pull over a vehicle for having no brake lights or no headlights after dark.

  • Editor's Note: This story had been amended to clarify Jeffrey Wright's Naval service.

  • Perhaps this year, the old saying should be amended to: to share is better than to receive.

  • Cook posted, amended, then deleted a sort-of apology over the controversy and refused all interviews.

  • An amended bill eventually passed that created a new board without all the power Mitchell and the Alliance had sought.

  • The contract has been amended 22 times in the past 14 years.

  • Modified and amended as their system is in its practical application, it still largely conditions our outlook to-day.

  • The petition must be signed and properly verified, and may be afterward amended for cause in the interest of justice.

  • "Given by me, madame," the girl amended, knowing well to what promise the Dowager referred.

  • The bill, he said, as amended, contained little or nothing of the bill which had been sent up to the lords.

  • Thus amended, the bill passed the lords, and the amendments were afterwards agreed to unanimously by the commons.