amend

verb5

1. •
   To make better; improve.

   • Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended. — 1594
2. •
   To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

   • We amended the rules so that we could admit 20 more members to the club.
3. •
   To become better.
4. •
   (no longer used) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).

   • But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend. — 1590
5. •
   (no longer used) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).

   • Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great assay of art; but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand— They presently amend. — 1606

noun[usually plural]2

1. •
   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
2. •
   (informal) Clipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).

   • I've sent over a new version of the doc with some amends.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of amendment.