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amends
[uh-mendz]
noun
reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
Synonyms: ,Obsolete.improvement; recovery, as of health.
amends
/ əˈɛԻ /
noun
(functioning as singular) recompense or compensation given or gained for some injury, insult, etc
to make amends
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of amends1
Idioms and Phrases
make amends, to compensate, as for an injury, loss, or insult.
I tried to make amends for the misunderstanding by sending her flowers.
Example Sentences
The Briton let a victory slip through his fingers after taking pole in Canada last year and said he wanted to make amends for that.
Just days after a furious barrage of posts on X, the Tesla CEO is trying to make amends.
I've tried to make amends as the years have gone on but that was the sort of life we were being brought up in.
But the judge rejected this demand, arguing Le Scouarnec's age and his "desire to make amends" had been taken into account.
In an interview with BBC Sport this week, Haaland described this season as "horrific" but said City had the chance to make amends by lifting silverware against Palace.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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