Meaning

4 senses

  1. Synonym of amends.

    (Scotland, plural, plural only)Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, plural, plural only)Repair, restoration; also, healing, recovery.

  3. Synonym of amends.

    (obsolete, plural, plural only)Something given as compensation.

  4. (Scotland, obsolete, plural, plural only)A means of making restoration or reparation; a remedy.

Origin

From mend (noun, verb) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and

From mend (noun, verb) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).

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Forms

plural: mendses
Singularmends
Pluralmendses

regular

Synonyms

19 synonyms
satisfactionB1compensationB2reliefB2assythrequiteamendsacquittalboteindemnificationindemnityquittalrecompensationrecompenseredress

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mendB1mendaciousmendicantmeningitismenopausemensch
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