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- emend[emend 词源字典]
- emend: see mend
[emend etymology, emend origin, 英语词源] - emend (v.)
- "remove faults from, alter for the better," c. 1400, from Latin emendare "to free from fault, correct, improve, revise," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + mendum (nominative menda) "fault, blemish" (see amend). Related: Emended; emending.