All amends synonyms
a·mends
A a noun amends
- compensation — Compensation is money that someone who has experienced loss or suffering claims from the person or organization responsible, or from the state.
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
- apology — An apology is something that you say or write in order to tell someone that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them.
- restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
- quittance — recompense or requital.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
- satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
- restoration — the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or reestablishment.
- recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- indemnity — protection or security against damage or loss.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- replacement — the act of replacing.
- return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
- substitution — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
adverb amends
- meed — a reward or recompense.
- measure for measure — a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare.
- rectification — the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.
- lex talionis — the principle or law of retaliation that a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; retributive justice.