verb
- to correct or improve a text by making changes to remove errors or defects
Usage: formal; often used in scholarly or editorial contexts
Examples
- The editor worked carefully to emend the manuscript before publication.
- Scholars have attempted to emend the corrupted passages in the ancient text.
- The professor asked students to emend their essays based on his feedback.
- It took months to emend all the errors in the historical document.
- The publisher hired experts to emend the translation.
- She spent hours trying to emend the garbled quotation.