Crossword-Solution: EMEND 5 letters, 247 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Emend	v. t.	To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
EMEND	anagram	EMDEN, MENDE

We have 247 clues for the answer “EMEND”

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Add a rider	1 answer
Add riders	1 answer
Add to and correct.	1 answer
Adjust, as text	1 answer
Alter to improve	1 answer
Alter, as a manuscript	1 answer
Alter, as writing	1 answer
Alter; correct	1 answer
Better text	1 answer
Castigate a text	1 answer
Castigate texts	1 answer
Change an "a" to an "e," say	1 answer
Change in writing	1 answer
Copy-edit	1 answer
Correct and revise a text	1 answer
Correct misspellings, e.g.	1 answer
Correct or improve	1 answer
Correct spelling, say	1 answer
Correct the spelling	1 answer
Correct the spelling, e.g.	1 answer
Correct writing	1 answer
Correct written work.	1 answer
Correct, as a text	1 answer
Correct, as crossword clues [sorry, Brendan --ed.]	1 answer
Correct, as manuscript.	1 answer
Correct, as writing	1 answer
Cut and paste text	1 answer
Do a rewrite on, perhaps	1 answer
Do editing	1 answer
Do text correction on	1 answer
Edit critically	1 answer
Edit (text)	1 answer
Edit a text	1 answer
Edit in or out	1 answer
Edit, as an article	1 answer
Edit; correct	1 answer
Fiddle with, as a term paper	1 answer
Fix the copy	1 answer
Fixes a story	1 answer
Free from errors	1 answer
Free from errors, as text	1 answer
Free from faults	1 answer
Give a do-over	1 answer
Improve a book	1 answer
Improve a thesis' quality, e.g.	1 answer
Improve by editing	1 answer
Improve copy	1 answer
Improve copy quality	1 answer
Improve textually.	1 answer
Improve the text	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

EAAR

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Unscramble EMEND 5-letter words that start with E 5-letter words that end in D 5-letter words containing ME 5-letter words containing ND 5-letter words with E and M

Sentences with EMEND (5)

Emend, Mend.] To change or modify in any way for the better; as, (a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like; (b) by supplying deficiencies; (c) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

The Norton Anthology editors emend the text to contain a comma after "merchants" rather than a colon, but I have chosen to follow the unusual, but seemingly correct, 1901 punctuation.

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Horatio Pater 2003

Upton and Jortin emend _delight_ to _dislike_; Church inserts _no_ before _delight_ and omits _best_; Kitchin suggests _despight_; Grosart prefers the text as it stands with the meaning that although the best music pleases the troubled mind, it is no pleasure to renew the memory of past sufferings.

Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Edmund Spenser 2005

Second, all critics have agreed to condemn the digression in which Theobald advertised his ability to emend Greek texts.

Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) Lewis Theobald 2005

The remaining error (63, 28 SIBI to _si_) is not difficult to emend when one considers the entire sentence: _quibus omnibus ita demum similis adolescet_, si _imbutus honestis artibus fuerit, quas_, etc.

A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand 2005

Quotes with EMEND (1)

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido.

Umberto Eco On Literature

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 539 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).