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make amends

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make amends (to someone) (for someone or something)
to make up to someone for something that someone or something did. Don't worry. I will make amends to her for my sister, who behaved so badly. I will try to make amends for the accident. lean make amends to Sam, I'm sure.
See also: make
make amends
to do something because you did not do it when you should have Wendi hopes that by winning today's match she will make amends to her fans for losing such an easy match yesterday.
Usage notes: often followed by a phrase that begins with to, by, or with, as in the example, or used at the end of a sentence: She embarrassed her family and wants to make amends.
See also: make
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But, as Uncle Alec's experiment was intended to amuse the young folks, rather than suggest educational improvements for the consideration of the elders, she trusts that these shortcomings will be overlooked by the friends of the Eight Cousins, and she will try to make amends in a second volume, which shall attempt to show The Rose in Bloom.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
I've been a cursed rascal, God knows,' said he, as he gave it a hearty squeeze, 'but you see if I don't make amends for it - d-n me if I don't
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
If he were deficient there, nothing should make amends for it.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
 
 
 
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