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make amends

make amends verb: to repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.

Verb

make amends (third-person singular simple present makes amends, present participle making amends, simple past and past participle made amends)

  1. (idiomatic) To repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.
    • I hope they can stop fighting and make amends.
    • We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"1990, Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, “Being Boring”, in Behaviour, performed by Pet Shop Boys

make amends meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

make amends in Tamil

to make amends, to make good; to indemnify
ஈடுகட்டு īṭukaṭṭu

make amends in Malayalam

recompense, compensate, indemnify
പരിഹാരം ചെയ്യുക, നഷ്ടപരിഹാരം കൊടുക്കുക, ഉചിതമായ പ്രതിഫലം കൊടുക്കുക, കുറവു നികത്തുക, കേടു തീർക്കുക, പരിഹരിക്കുക

make amends in Kannada

ಪರಿಹಾರವನ್ನು ನೀಡು

Synonyms of make amends

All synonyms of make amends

Forms of make amends

third-person singular presentmakes amends
present participlemaking amends
past participlemade amends
pastmade amends

Questions about make amends

What does make amends mean?
Make amends means to repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.
What is make amends in Tamil?
Make amends in Tamil is ஈடுகட்டு (īṭukaṭṭu). See Make amends meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is make amends?
Make amends is a verb.
What is the past tense of make amends?
The past tense of make amends is made amends.

Words near make amends in the dictionary

  1. make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
  2. make after
  3. make against
  4. make all the difference
  5. make all the running
  6. make amends
  7. make an appearance
  8. make an ass of
  9. make an effort
  10. make an entrance
  11. make an errand

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: make amends (page history and authors); ஈடுகட்டு (Tamil) (page history and authors); make amends (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); make amends (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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