pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Recompense for grievance or injury: The new law offers no amends to victims of crime. I assured them that no amends are necessary. You must make amends to them for the insult. [Middle English amendes, from Old French, pl. of amende, reparation, from amender, to amend; see AMEND.] |
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