HOW TO PRONOUNCE
amendment
/əˈmɛndmənt/
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Give “mend” the strongest beat.
Use three syllables and a light first vowel. Keep n, d and m connected across the middle, then finish with a light vowel and the consonants n and t.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The document includes an amendment.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does amendment mean?
noun
- An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- Correction of an error in a writ or process.
More meanings (2)
noun
- An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
- That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈmɛndmənt/
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All the articles of Vol. II., Book 2, concerning property and the right of accession, were passed without opposition or amendment.
In one of the last, indeed, which was for granting fifty thousand pounds, his propos'd amendment was only of a single word.
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For example, in one precinct in Detroit forty more votes were counted against our amendment than there were voters in the district.
And consequently, whenever nine, or rather ten States, were united in the desire of a particular amendment, that amendment must infallibly take place.
These provisions, whatever the opinion entertained as to the wisdom of such laws, are well within the principle laid down by the Fifteenth Amendment.