1. to make corrections or improvements to a text, manuscript, or document by removing errors or making editorial changes
Usage: formal; often used in scholarly or editorial contexts

Examples

• The editor worked carefully to emendate the ancient manuscript, correcting scribal errors.
• Scholars emendate historical texts to restore what they believe was the original wording.
• She spent weeks trying to emendate the translation to make it more accurate.
• The publisher decided to emendate several passages in the second edition.
• Textual critics emendate documents based on comparison with other known versions.