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change one's ways

change one's ways is the alternative form of mend one's ways.

Meaning of mend one's ways

Verb

mend one's ways (third-person singular simple present mends one's ways, present participle mending one's ways, simple past and past participle mended one's ways)

  1. (idiomatic) To recognise one's failings and attempt to remedy them.

Forms of change one's ways

third-person singular presentchanges one's ways
present participlechanging one's ways
past participlechanged one's ways
pastchanged one's ways

Questions about change one's ways

What is change one's ways the alternative form of?
Change one's ways is the alternative form of mend one's ways.

Words near change one's ways in the dictionary

  1. change one's battery
  2. change one's mind
  3. change one's spots
  4. change one's story
  5. change one's tune
  6. change one's ways
  7. change oneself
  8. change order
  9. change orders
  10. change out
  11. change over

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Adapted from Wiktionary: change one's ways (page history and authors); mend one's ways (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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