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amending

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

修订,修正,修改,修订的

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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
Forms: amended, amends
Antonyms

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Many Democrats agree the law needs amending, but have not been pushing for the same sweeping changes.

  • So what the anti-Citizens United movement really needs to do is something even harder than amending the Constitution.

  • Here's one amending a surprising quote from the editor of The New Yorker.

  • Hatch is found guilty of violating his probation by not amending his tax returns or paying his taxes.

  • “Any talk of amending the Constitution is just wrong,” she said in a White House press briefing.

  • The problem with both these solutions is that they depend on amending the Constitution.

  • In an amending Special Order of 20th July 1893, the age was raised, but the phrase was retained.

  • "You can't govern a great empire by amending and repealing the Acts of your predecessors," said the doctor.

  • Does it require of a public man to refuse to concur in amending laws, because they passed against his consent?

  • Americans boast of making their own laws, and of amending them whenever circumstances render it necessary.

  • Heated discussions took place over the refusal of the Government to disclose the details of the Amending Bill.