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.

From The Daily Beast

Make amends to those you live with, go back to work, enjoy getting to eat meat again.

From The Daily Beast

The hip-hop mogul tells Lloyd Grove he plans to make amends for his Harriet Tubman sex video joke and take Tinseltown by storm.

From The Daily Beast

I was there to offer condolences and make amends of a sort, via U.S. dollars.

From The Daily Beast

But after seeing Chasing Ice, she knew she had to make amends.

From The Daily Beast

Leucippe herself goes far to make amends for the general insipidity of the other characters.

From Project Gutenberg

She rightly conjectured that the girl was already ashamed of her sharpness, and wished to make amends in some way.

From Project Gutenberg

Is it thus you wish to try to make amends for the welcome of which I complain?

From Project Gutenberg

Was there no scheme of some other sort, and far less agreeable, to make amends for Steignton?

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• amend
• improve
• rebuild
• rehabilitate
• remake
• renovate
• reorganize
• repair
• resolve
• restore
• revise
• revolutionize
• standardize
• transform