Synonyms of amending

amending

verb

present participle of amend

1

as in improving

to make better

trying to amend the situation of the striking workers by supplying them with minimal food supplies

Synonyms & Similar Words

• improving
• enhancing
• upgrading
• refining
• remedying
• perfecting
• ameliorating
• remediating
• helping
• bettering
• enriching
• reinforcing
• revising
• correcting
• reforming
• rectifying
• meliorating
• strengthening
• rehabilitating
• reworking
• editing
• intensifying
• refurbishing
• redrafting
• revamping
• emending
• fining
• polishing
• boosting
• fine-tuning
• fortifying
• honing
• rehabbing
• beefing (up)
• touching up
• retouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• worsening
• impairing
• damaging
• injuring
• harming
• vitiating
• hurting
• reducing
• spoiling
• tarnishing
• defacing
• lowering
• marring
• blighting
• diminishing
• disfiguring
• lessening
• endamaging
• flawing
• blemishing

2

as in correcting

to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from

the Bill of Rights was adopted in an effort to amend a constitution that seemed to many to be deficient in guaranteeing individual rights

Synonyms & Similar Words

• correcting
• reforming
• rewriting
• remedying
• improving
• changing
• rectifying
• modifying
• repairing
• revising
• emending
• adjusting
• debugging
• reworking
• redrafting
• fixing
• altering
• shortening
• redrawing
• red-penciling
• regulating
• perfecting
• ameliorating
• polishing
• redressing
• righting
• bettering
• restyling
• cutting
• modulating
• blue-penciling
• touching up
• mending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• impairing
• injuring
• damaging
• hurting
• harming
• spoiling
• worsening
• marring
• aggravating

3

as in reforming

to change one's behavior or character for the better

the judge had heard the defendant promise before that he would amend

Synonyms & Similar Words

• improving
• reforming
• behaving
• shaping up
• regenerating
• straightening (up or out)
• cleaning up one's act
• mending
• bettering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• regressing
• backsliding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of amending

Recently, the Illinois Register proposed amending the administrative code to update the definitions of the various alcohol categories solely by their production process — not their alcohol content. — Adam Hoffer, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

That’s what’s important, so just amending the contract doesn’t work for me. — Michael Praats, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2026

The Republican National Committee began laying the groundwork earlier this year, voting at its winter meeting in January to make such an event possible by amending procedures centered around quadrennial presidential nominating conventions. — ABC News, 30 June 2026

Courts have held that taxpayers who themselves file fraudulent returns cannot erase fraud by later amending their returns. — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Critics argue the proposal would create two different sets of rules for amending the same constitution. — Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 24 June 2026

Michelle Ford, a soil scientist and wildlife biologist who owns EcoMaps, said Silverman over the past two months had addressed her concerns about wetlands protection by amending plans. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026

Results will direct you on the best method for amending soil, if needed. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026

His party failed to win a supermajority, barring him from amending the constitution to give up Armenia’s claims to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a central demand of Azerbaijan as a precondition for a lasting peace deal. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2026