See amend on Wiktionary
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"word": "amendability"
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"word": "amendable"
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"name": "der"
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"4": "",
"5": "free from faults"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.",
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"word": "emend"
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{
"ref": "1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;\nMar not the thing that cannot be amended.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
"text": "I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.",
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"To make better; improve."
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"(transitive) To make better; improve."
],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥassana",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "حَسَّنَ"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "popravjam",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "поправям"
},
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"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
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"sense": "to make better",
"word": "подобрявам"
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{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "esmenar"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiūzhèng",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "修正"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiūgǎi",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "修改"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǎizhèng",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "改正"
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{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "amendya"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "zlepšit"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "zlepšovat"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "vylepšit"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "vylepšovat"
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{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "verbeteren"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "corrigeren"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "aanpassen"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "korjata"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "parantaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "amender"
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{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "verbessern"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "ausbessern"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "leasaigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "ceartaigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "perfezionare"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "migliorare"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "correggere"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "ripulire"
},
{
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"alt": "かいせいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaisei suru",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "改正する"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"alt": "あらためる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "aratameru",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "改める"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"alt": "しゅうせいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shūsei suru",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "修正する"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "emendo"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pódobri",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "по́добри"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "íspravi",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "и́справи"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "haukaha"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "menemana"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "tapi"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "amender"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "poprawiać"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "poprawić"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "melhorar"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulučšátʹ",
"sense": "to make better",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "улучша́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soveršénstvovatʹ",
"sense": "to make better",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "соверше́нствовать"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispravljátʹ",
"sense": "to make better",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "исправля́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "poboljšati"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "corregir"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "mejorar"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "remendar"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "emendar"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "iyileştirmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "düzeltmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pokráščuvaty",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "покра́щувати"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vypravljáty",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "виправля́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "gwella"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 33 1 1 4",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "cywirio"
}
]
},
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{
"ref": "1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.",
"type": "quote"
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],
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"To become better."
],
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"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To become better."
],
"tags": [
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],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥasuna",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "حَسُنَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podobrjavam se",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "подобрявам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "zlepšit se"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "zlepšovat se"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "napravit se"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "napravovat se"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "verbeteren"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "korjaantua"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "parantua"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "verbessern"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "migliorarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "perfezionarsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become better",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poprawić się"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become better",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poprawiać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "melhorar"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulučšátʹsja",
"sense": "to become better",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "улучша́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soveršénstvovatʹsja",
"sense": "to become better",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "соверше́нствоваться"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispravljátʹsja",
"sense": "to become better",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "исправля́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "mejorar"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "iyileşmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "29 68 2 1 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "düzelmek"
}
]
},
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{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
"text": "But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:",
"text": "he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.)."
],
"id": "en-amend-en-verb-BTSIokss",
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[
"heal",
"heal"
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[
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"cure"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.)."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:",
"text": "Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls\nThat stay his cure: their malady convinces\nThe great assay of art; but at his touch—\nSuch sanctity hath heaven given his hand—\nThey presently amend.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness)."
],
"id": "en-amend-en-verb--e9KXnv5",
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[
"heal",
"heal"
],
[
"cure",
"cure"
],
[
"recover",
"recover"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 23, p. 46:",
"text": "The following motions cannot be amended:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990,\nIt is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing."
],
"id": "en-amend-en-verb-N7SGa8Xe",
"links": [
[
"formal",
"formal"
],
[
"alteration",
"alteration"
],
[
"legislation",
"legislation"
],
[
"report",
"report"
],
[
"adding",
"adding"
],
[
"deleting",
"deleting"
],
[
"rephrasing",
"rephrasing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "korigíram",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "кориги́рам"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "amendya"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "napravit"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "napravovat"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "amenderen"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "amendi"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "muuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "novellieren"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "helyesbít"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 2 3 1 80",
"code": "ga",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiūzhèng",
"sense": "to make better",
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"word": "corrigeren"
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to make better",
"word": "korjata"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make better",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "ausbessern"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "ceartaigh"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to make better",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "migliorare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "correggere"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make better",
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"alt": "かいせいする",
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"word": "改正する"
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"alt": "あらためる",
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to make better",
"word": "emendo"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pódobri",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "по́добри"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "íspravi",
"sense": "to make better",
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "haukaha"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "menemana"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "tapi"
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{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "amender"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "poprawiać"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "poprawić"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "melhorar"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulučšátʹ",
"sense": "to make better",
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"word": "улучша́ть"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to make better",
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"word": "соверше́нствовать"
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"sense": "to make better",
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"word": "исправля́ть"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "poboljšati"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "corregir"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to make better",
"word": "mejorar"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "remendar"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to make better",
"word": "emendar"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to make better",
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "düzeltmek"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pokráščuvaty",
"sense": "to make better",
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vypravljáty",
"sense": "to make better",
"word": "виправля́ти"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "to make better",
"word": "gwella"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to make better",
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ḥasuna",
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"word": "حَسُنَ"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "podobrjavam se",
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"word": "подобрявам се"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "zlepšovat se"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "napravit se"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "napravovat se"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "verbeteren"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "korjaantua"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "parantua"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "verbessern"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "migliorarsi"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "perfezionarsi"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become better",
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"word": "poprawić się"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become better",
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to become better",
"word": "melhorar"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to become better",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to become better",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to become better",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "korigíram",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "кориги́рам"
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{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "amendya"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "muuttaa"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "novellieren"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "helyesbít"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "leasaigh"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "emendare"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "rettificare"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "sv",
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"word": "ändra"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "vnósyty zmíny",
"sense": "to make a formal alteration",
"word": "вно́сити змі́ни"
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"ref": "1813, John Elihu Hall, “Of Mariners”, in The American Law Journal, volume 4:",
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"ref": "2008, Raphael Sabatini, Chivalry, page 114:",
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"ref": "2011, Bill Fifield, Sandy Fifield, Dig Deep in One Place: A Couple's Journey to a Spiritual Life, page 100:",
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"ref": "2013, M. T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs, page 120:",
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