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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AMENDS', n. plu.
Compensation for an injury; recompense; satisfaction; equivalent; as, the happiness of a future life will more than make amends for the miseries of this.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress]
2: something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends" [syn: reparation, amends]

Merriam Webster's

noun plural but singular or plural in construction Etymology: Middle English amendes, from Anglo-French, plural of amende reparation, from amender Date: 14th century compensation for a loss or injury ; recompense <make amends>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Phrases and idioms: make amends (often foll. by for) compensate or make up (for). Etymology: ME f. OF amendes penalties, fine, pl. of amende reparation f. amender AMEND

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Amends A*mends", n. sing. & pl. [F. amendes, pl. of amende. Cf. Amende.] Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.] ``An honorable amends.'' --Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. --Shak.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Compensation, (for loss or injury), recompense, indemnification, indemnity, reparation, restitution, redress, atonement, expiation, satisfaction.

Moby Thesaurus

atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensate, compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation, expiatory offering, fixing, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, make amends, make reparation, make restitution, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, pay, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiation, quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption, redress, refund, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, repair, repairing, reparation, repay, repayment, reprisal, requital, requite, requitement, restitution, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, salvage, satisfaction, smart money, solatium, squaring, substitution, troubleshooting, wergild