Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #874 of 1319

amend (v.)

to change formally

Examples

  • Amend the law.

Key rules

  • Amend means change or improve a law or document formally
  • Amend a law, amend the constitution
  • Amendment is the noun

Common mistakes

  • They amended to the law → They amended the law
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