verb

• (transitive) To make better; improve.
  "Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended."
• (intransitive) To become better.
  "The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend."
• (obsolete, transitive) 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."
• (obsolete, intransitive) 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."

noun

• (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."
• (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."