AMEND Copy link • AMENDTransitively, melius facere or efficere (to make better): corrigere (to correct or improve a whole that is defective, not right, etc.): emendare (to free anything from faults). (The words are found in this connection and order), corrigere et emendare; emendare et corrigere. To amend one’s ways, mores corrigere or emendare. Intransitively, to grow better in health, meliorem fieri; ex morbo convalescere: ex incommoda valetudine emergere. I am beginning to amend, meliuscule est mihi. To improve: of fortune, etc. “My fortune amends” (Sidonius), meae res sunt meliore loco. With respect to morals, mores suos mutare; in viam redire: ad virtutem redire or revocari; ad bonam frugem se recipere.