amends

[US]/ə'men(d)z/
[UK]/ə'mɛndz/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. compensation; atonement
v. improve; revise

Phrases & Collocations

make amends

offer amends

seeking amends

financial amends

Example Sentences

clumsily trying to make amends

try to make amends for the rude way you spoke to Lucy.

How can I make amends for losing my temper?

The new law offers no amends to victims of crime. I assured them that no amends are necessary. You must make amends to them for the insult.See Synonyms at reparation

This country refuses stubbornly to make amends for its past war crimes.

It made him wish to make amends for his former unkindness to the boy.

I’m sorry I upset you—how can I make amends?

How can I ever make amends for ruining their party?

He made amends for his rudeness by giving her some flowers.

He finished third in the 200 metres, but hopes to make amends in the 100 metres.

Empiristic analysis, through interviewing probe and questionnaire survey and multiple statistical analysis method, amends employee turnover forecast model of dynamic.

Iraq's government could make amends for the mistake of his overhasty execution by making sure those investigations continue.

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