[pl.]
IDIOMS
make amends (to sb) (for sth / for doing sth) to do sth for sb in order to show that you are sorry for sth wrong or unfair that you have done:
She tried to make amends for what she had said to her mother by buying her some flowers.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is amends a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, amends is tagged as noun.
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