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make amends
Idioms and Phrases
Compensate someone for a grievance or injury, as in They must make amends for the harm they've caused you . This expression was first recorded in 1330.Example Sentences
Many fans feel that streaming services give a raw deal to musicians, and want to make amends for using them.
Make amends to those you live with, go back to work, enjoy getting to eat meat again.
The hip-hop mogul tells Lloyd Grove he plans to make amends for his Harriet Tubman sex video joke and take Tinseltown by storm.
I was there to offer condolences and make amends of a sort, via U.S. dollars.
But after seeing Chasing Ice, she knew she had to make amends.
Leucippe herself goes far to make amends for the general insipidity of the other characters.
She rightly conjectured that the girl was already ashamed of her sharpness, and wished to make amends in some way.
Is it thus you wish to try to make amends for the welcome of which I complain?
Was there no scheme of some other sort, and far less agreeable, to make amends for Steignton?
So, then, our union gives us powers to make amends to the world, if the world should grant us a term of peace for the effort.
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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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