Crossword clues for amends
amends
- Adds on
- Improves, editorially
- Puts right
- Adds a rider to
- Injury assuager
- They're made when making up
- Makes improvements to
- Changes, in a way
- Revises, as a will
- Removes faults in, as text
- Modifies, as a law
- Modifies for the better
- Make __ (atone)
- Improves upon
- Compensates for a loss
- What to make when you've hurt someone
- What restitution may make
- What might be made after an argument
- What malefactors might make
- Varies (legislation)
- Updates, as statutes
- They're made with an apology
- They might be made to reconcile
- Sticks a rider to
- Revises, as a document
- Puts riders on, say
- Making ___
- Makes modifications to
- Makes additions
- Makes __ (atones)
- Make ___ (atone)
- Improves— damages
- Compensation for harm
- Changes, as a law
- Changes a bill, perhaps
- Alters formally
- Adds to the bill
- Adds riders to
- Adds changes to
- Straightens out
- Alters, as legislation
- Modifies, as legislation
- What former foes make
- Changes for the better
- Recompense
- Changes, as the Constitution
- They may be made after wars
- Peace offering
- Compensation for loss
- They're made after a fight
- Makes right
- What the remorseful might make
- Make ___ (set things right)
- To make better
- Set straight or right
- Make amendments to
- Compensation (given or received) for an injury or insult
- A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- Changes constitutionally
- What penitents make
- Corrects
- Improves prose
- Adds to or subtracts from
- Redress
- Alters, as a bill
- Alters a bill
- Something to make
- Makes better
- What sinners sometimes make
- What expiators make
- Makes minor improvements
- Corrects the final part in a script
- Changes the last word, originally deemed substandard
- Changes American aims
- Workers with plugs brought about repairs
- What Puck will make in play is what happens before PM arrives
- Improves - damages
- Makes changes to, as a law
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "restitution," collective singular, from Old French amendes "fine, penalty," plural of amende "reparation," from amender "to amend" (see amend).
Wiktionary
n. Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. vb. (en-third-person singular of: amend)
WordNet
n. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress]
something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends" [syn: reparation]
Wikipedia
"Amends" is episode 10 of season three of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
"Amends" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. This is the first original episode to air on the USA Network.
Usage examples of "amends".
Then the cure, finding himself thus amerced in fines and amends, said to the judge.
And he insisted on making amends for his imposture the day before an imposture, he pointed out, that had singularly failed due to their collective skills by ordering bumpers of arrack punch.
For if any of the commoners were to make avowry for beasts taken in the common pasture it would then follow that if the Inquest were to pass against the plaintiff, he who avowed the taking in the common pasture would have the return of the beasts and the amends, and not the lord of the pasture, and that would be improper.
He was grateful for her forgiveness, and made amends by acceding to her wishes in regard to mixing with people he found uncongenial and visiting places which held no interest for him, such as dining with Madame de Brocages and running from church to church.
But though the king, by detaining James in the English court, had shown himself somewhat deficient in generosity, he made ample amends by giving that prince an excellent education, which afterwards qualified him, when he mounted the throne, to reform in some measure the rude and barbarous manners of his native country.
It is tempting to conclude that there was an element of remorse and even guilt in this charity - perhaps an attempt to make amends to the enserfed ranks of people from which Praskovya came.
Europe know of the amends I owe to the greatest genius our continent has produced.
She told me I had insulted her grievously, and that unless I made amends I should feel her vengeance.
Bragadin, to whom I told the whole story begging him to press for some signal amends.
I made a lively representation to him of all the grounds on which my landlady required proportionate amends to be made, since the laws guaranteed the peace of all law-abiding people.