amend

Etymology

From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend.

verb

1. (transitive) To make better; improve.
2. (intransitive) To become better.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
5. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
   The following motions cannot be amended: 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 23, p. 46
   1990, Doug Hoyle, Hansard, Trade Union Act, 1984, Amendment no. 2, 4 July, 1990, It is necessary to amend the Act to preserve the spirit in which it was first passed into law […]

noun

1. (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
   Thus by the code of the Visigoths, it was forbidden to all strangers to take their subjects under a penalty of one hundred lashes and an amend in gold. 1813, John Elihu Hall, “Of Mariners”, in The American Law Journal, volume 4
   It was her offer of surrender as an amend that, persuading him of her shining honesty, had aroused in him something akin to worship and had made an end of that cynical spirit in which for worldly ends he had aimed at marrying her. 2008, Raphael Sabatini, Chivalry, page 114
   Did I owe him an amend? Probably not, but I did owe myself an amend. I did this by ceasing to resent. 2011, Bill Fifield, Sandy Fifield, Dig Deep in One Place: A Couple's Journey to a Spiritual Life, page 100
   The point was, I wasn't really willing to make the amend, to make it right. But the point of an amend, as I understand it now, is to make it right for the person who was wringed, to the best of our ability, and in so doing, making it right for ourselves. 2013, M. T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs, page 120
2. (informal, of a document, usually in the plural) Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).
   I've sent over a new version of the doc with some amends.