emend
/iːˈmend/verb
with obj.
1- make corrections and improvements to (a text)校订（文稿）; 修改（文本）。
1.1
- alter (something) in such a way as to correct it订正, 改正：
the year of his death might need to be emended to 652
他去世的年份可能须订正为652年
with clause he hesitated and quickly emended what he had said.他迟疑了一下, 马上对自己的话进行了纠正。
派生词
emendation
noun词源
late Middle English: from Latin emendare, from e （variant of ex-） 'out of' + menda 'a fault'. compare with AMEND.