emending

present participle of emend

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for emending
Verb
  • After amending your soil with compost or aged manure before planting, these heavy-feeding plants need an additional side-dressing with a balanced organic fertilizer when their leafy shoots emerge in spring.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • As a compromise, Joyce proposed amending the proposal to include housing at least 10 years old.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • A little over the top, maybe, but full marks for acknowledging a mistake and correcting it quickly.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Their innovation was something called backpropagation, or backprop for short, which was a method for correcting the outputs of the middle, hidden layer of neurons during each training pass so that the network as a whole could learn efficiently.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • How is Tumi rewriting the playbook for a luxury, lifestyle house?
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • My wooden Slazenger made hitting winners difficult in the same way that my humming Selectric made rewriting sentences cumbersome.
    Thomas Swick September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Emending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emending. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on emending

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!