emending

verb

Definition of emendingnext
present participle of emend
as in amending
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from the first printout quickly revealed that our computer program needed to be emended

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  1. amending
  2. correcting
  3. rewriting
Verb
  • Lawmakers responded by amending the FBAR penalty regime in 1986.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • That would bar future legislatures from amending state law to authorize noncitizens to vote in local elections, as has been done in some jurisdictions outside of Iowa, Appel confirmed to Axios.
    Jason Clayworth, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of amending
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  • What measures have countries implemented to try preventing or correcting myopia in young people?
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The movie can only go so far in correcting that, supplying shades and facial expressions absent from the actual toy line.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of correcting
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  • To complicate matters, Baker was often rewriting the night before, embracing and discarding ideas about the violent paces the characters would put each other through.
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Maduro subsequently announced the formation of a new Constituent Assembly, tasked with rewriting the constitution.
    Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2017
Definition of rewriting
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