verb
- present participle of emend; making corrections or improvements to a text, document, or manuscript
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The scholar spent months emendating the ancient manuscript to restore its original meaning.
- She is emendating the draft by removing redundant passages and clarifying unclear sentences.
- The editor is emendating the text to fix typographical errors and grammatical mistakes.
- By emendating the historical document, researchers uncovered previously misunderstood passages.
- He devoted his career to emendating classical texts for modern readers.