make amends

1. 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

"After his clarification of the matter, it was touching that someone would wish to make amends for an act of youthful exuberance," Franz Zehetner told the BBC.

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“I was there in some ways to make amends for the damage that we have done,” she said.

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I’m now a small business owner in Hazard, Kentucky; I run a small independent bookshop called the Read Spotted Newt, which fuels my creativity and offers me a way to make amends to the community I abused for years.

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Reparations are measures to make amends for past actions deemed wrong or unfair, and can range from the financial to symbolic.

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On Friday afternoon, Scheffler was unable to make amends in the fourballs alongside debutant JJ Spaun as they were beaten 3&2 by Rahm and Sepp Straka.

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