amends
noun/əˈmendz/
/əˈmendz/
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French amendes ‘penalties, fine’, plural of amende ‘reparation’, from amender, based on Latin emendare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + menda ‘a fault’.
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See amends in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarymake amends (to somebody) (for something/for doing something)
- to do something for somebody in order to show that you are sorry for something wrong or unfair that you have done synonym make up for something
- She tried to make amends for what she had said to her mother by buying her some flowers.
- The team is desperate to make amends for two successive defeats.
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