amending / əˈmɛnd /

修订修正修改修订的

amending2 个定义

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

amending 近义词

v. 动词 verb

improve, correct

更多amending例句

  1. It asked voters to amend the city code to allow commercial marijuana retailers in non-residential zones and marijuana deliveries and cultivation in the city.
  2. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that 58% of Americans favor amending the Constitution to require that the presidential candidate who receives the most votes nationwide wins, while 40% prefer to keep the current system.
  3. There are also several state and local referendums, including on whether to amend Virginia’s Constitution to allow for the creation of a 16-member commission tasked with redrawing election district boundaries.
  4. He amended legislation to increase earned-sentencing credits for prisoners, proposing a six-month delay to give the Department of Corrections time to implement the change.
  5. Many Democrats agree the law needs amending, but have not been pushing for the same sweeping changes.
  6. So what the anti-Citizens United movement really needs to do is something even harder than amending the Constitution.
  7. Here's one amending a surprising quote from the editor of The New Yorker.
  8. Hatch is found guilty of violating his probation by not amending his tax returns or paying his taxes.
  9. “Any talk of amending the Constitution is just wrong,” she said in a White House press briefing.
  10. The problem with both these solutions is that they depend on amending the Constitution.
  11. In an amending Special Order of 20th July 1893, the age was raised, but the phrase was retained.
  12. "You can't govern a great empire by amending and repealing the Acts of your predecessors," said the doctor.
  13. Does it require of a public man to refuse to concur in amending laws, because they passed against his consent?
  14. Americans boast of making their own laws, and of amending them whenever circumstances render it necessary.
  15. Heated discussions took place over the refusal of the Government to disclose the details of the Amending Bill.