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amends 音標拼音: [əm'ɛndz] n. 賠償,贖罪,道歉 賠償,贖罪,道歉 amends n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [ synonym: { damages}, { amends}, { indemnity}, { indemnification}, { restitution}, { redress}] 2: something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; " how can I make amends" [ synonym: { reparation}, { amends}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 72 Moby Thesaurus words for " amends": 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, wergildAMENDS. A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for awrong committed. 1 Lilly' s Reg. 81. 2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and by similar statutes insome of the United States, justices of the peace, upon being notified of anintended suit against them, may tender amends fore the wrong alleged or doneby them in their official character, and if found sufficient, the tenderdebars the action. See Act of Penn. 21 March, 1772, Sec. 1 and. 2; Willes' Rep. 671, 2; 6 Bin. 83; 5 Serg. & R. 517, 299; 3 Id. 295; 4 Bin. 20.
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