AMENDING Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

amending

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present participle of amend

as in improving

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

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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

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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

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Recent Examples of amending That vote was meant to be the final part of the multistep process for amending the Virginia constitution. —

Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 13 May 2026 Proper plant placement and amending soil to ensure adequate drainage are the best way to prevent root rots. —

Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 May 2026 Rebecca Green, a law professor and director of the Election Law Program at William & Mary Law School in Virginia, said the court there rejected the redistricting plan based on narrow grounds pertaining to Virginia law on amending the state Constitution, which doesn’t apply in California. —

Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026 That act, of amending Jefferson’s original draft, edit upon edit, has been the story not only of new nation-states declaring their independence but also of people within nation-states. —

Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 Congress overturned that by amending the law to allow results of a districting scheme to be sufficient proof. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2026 The measure called for amending the constitution by requiring, in order of priority, that Illinois legislative districts be equal in population; provide equal opportunity regardless of race; have districts with racial minority influence; be contiguous and be compact. —

Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026 Councilmember Sergio Lopez cast the lone dissenting vote on amending the ordinance. —

Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 Council member Abbie Kamin, one of three members who had pushed for the ordinance, voted against amending it, saying that doing so was giving in to bullying tactics from state leaders. —

ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026

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More than a workflow, CD/CR is positioned as a new framework and potentially a new SOC discipline, built around the idea that detection and investigation should function as a single self-improving system.

— K.H. Koehler, USA Today, 18 May 2026
In addition to the work on the golf course, which includes improving bunkers and teeing areas as well as re-grassing, Jeffersonville in 2024 completed a new $12 million state-of-the-art clubhouse.

— Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026