AMENDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amends mean? 

• AMENDS (noun)
  The noun AMENDS has 2 senses:

1. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
2. something done or paid in expiation of a wrong

  Familiarity information: AMENDS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMENDS (noun)

Meaning:

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

amends; damages; indemnification; redress; restitution; indemnity

Hypernyms ("amends" is a kind of...):

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amends"):

relief ((law) redress awarded by a court)

actual damages; compensatory damages; general damages ((law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated)

nominal damages ((law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract))

exemplary damages; punitive damages; smart money ((law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct))

atonement; expiation; satisfaction (compensation for a wrong)

Meaning:

Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

amends; reparation

Context example:

how can I make amends

Hypernyms ("amends" is a kind of...):

atonement; expiation; propitiation (the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity))