If you make amends when you have harmed someone, you show that you are sorry by doing something to please them. He wanted to make amends for causing their marriage to fail. to correct or make small changes to something that is written or spoken (amender, from emendare; EMEND)
If you amend something that has been written such as a law, or something that is said, you change it in order to improve it or make it more accurate. The president agreed to amend the constitution and allow multi-party elections the amended version of the Act. = revise
To change or modify in any way for the better by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like; by supplying deficiencies; by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify