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amends

noun
/əˈmɛndz/US

Etymology

From French amendes, plural of amende. Compare with amende.

  1. derived from amendes

Definitions

  1. plural of amend

  2. Compensation for an injury or loss

    Compensation for an injury or loss; recompense; reparation.

    • Amends were made for the damage and no charges were filed.
    • As to you, Mr. Carruthers, I think that you have done what you could to make amends for your share in an evil plot.

  3. third-person singular simple present indicative of amend

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at amends. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at amends. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at amends

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA