Amending can be understood as correcting or joining. É the act of improving something already accomplished, to add some seam, that is, adjustment. That's why it can relate to both repair and union.
Its most popular form is when it comes to "mend holiday", which means to bridge the gap between the holiday and the weekend. So it becomes the middle working day, which has been amended, a day off. As in the example: "She amended the Thursday holiday. She's leaving work on Wednesday and doesn't come back until Monday."
In the sense of improving or correcting, it is used by the Law in expressions such as "constitutional amendment" or "parliamentary amendment". They are corrections or complements to the text of the Federal Constitution or any bill of law.
Discover here the meaning of constitutional amendment.
To mend is also football jargon, when the player catches the ball with his feet in the air and kicks without dampening: "he amended at first and kicked straight into the goal".
The popular expression "worse the amendment than the sonnet" means that what was changed became worse than the initial one. The origin of the expression comes from the Portuguese poet Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, who would have been asked for a correction in a poem by an aspiring poet. But the writing was so bad, the amendment would be worse than the original sonnet.
Synonyms for Amend
- Change
- Correct
- Get together
- To connect
- Improve
- Modify
- redo
- Reform
- Patch up
- Rectify
- Get together
- Join