▸ verb: (transitive) To make better; improve. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To become better. ▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.). ▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness). ▸ verb: (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. ▸ noun: (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation. ▸ noun: A surname. ▸ noun: (informal, of a document, usually in the plural) Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”). [An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.]
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