AMENDED | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of amended in English amended Add to word list Add to word list past simple and past participle of amend amendverb [ T ] uk /əˈmend/ us /əˈmend/ C2 to change the words of a text, especially a law or a legal document: MPs were urged to amend the law to prevent another oil tanker disaster. In line 20, "men" should be amended (= changed) to "people". Until the constitution is amended, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president. Adapting and modifying

• acclimate
• acclimation
• acclimatization
• acclimatize
• acclimatize to something
• amendment
• chameleon
• change with/keep up with/move with the times idiom
• configure
• counter-adaptation
• nonadaptive
• pliancy
• pliant
• pliantly
• preadaptation
• turn the tables on someone idiom
• unacclimated
• unacclimatized
• unadapted
• unamended

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Editing & compiling UK politics: legislation & law-making (Definition of amended from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

I hope this can be amended in future editions. From the Cambridge English Corpus Finally, in 1936 he amended the constitution and extended his ' presidency ' to 1949. From the Cambridge English Corpus Written procedures are then evaluated and amended if necessary to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. From the Cambridge English Corpus Nitrification was significantly increased in soils amended with ammonium or with ammonium plus phosphorus, suggesting that nitrification is substrate-limited. From the Cambridge English Corpus European courts confirmed their position that administrative guidelines, which have an abstract-general scope of application, may not be implicitly amended by decisions in individual cases. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, this simple contextualisation game needs to be amended when combinations of games are considered. From the Cambridge English Corpus In both periods, nurses made almost 50% of interventions, and 40% of these prescriptions were amended; for pharmacist interventions, this figure was 60%. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, the project presented to the congress was amended in significant ways to accommodate the radical convictions of most deputies. From the Cambridge English Corpus Modern agricultural systems have amended some of their properties to increase productivity. From the Cambridge English Corpus Yet more improvement is possible, hence the next generation of cupholders is amended accordingly; and so on. From the Cambridge English Corpus The intercropped rotation was continued, amended as described below or without alteration to the manure treatments. From the Cambridge English Corpus Once amended to account o for this fact, the change becomes both syntactically and semantically implausible. From the Cambridge English Corpus Yet, fifteen years passed before the law was amended to include such a grant. From the Cambridge English Corpus Nutrient concentrations, growth, and yield of tomato and squash in municipal solid waste amended soil. From the Cambridge English Corpus Physical characteristics of sandy soil amended with municipal solid waste compost. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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