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mend one's ways

mend one's ways verb: to recognise one's failings and attempt to remedy them.

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.

mend one's ways meaning in Vietnamese

mend one's ways in Vietnamese

to attempt to remedy one's failings
hối cải

Forms of mend one's ways

third-person singular presentmends one's ways
present participlemending one's ways
past participlemended one's ways
pastmended one's ways

Questions about mend one's ways

What does mend one's ways mean?
Mend one's ways means to recognise one's failings and attempt to remedy them.
What is mend one's ways in Vietnamese?
Mend one's ways in Vietnamese is hối cải. See Mend one's ways meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is mend one's ways?
Mend one's ways is a verb.
What is the past tense of mend one's ways?
The past tense of mend one's ways is mended one's ways.

Words near mend one's ways in the dictionary

  1. Menckenisms
  2. Menckes
  3. mend
  4. mend fences
  5. mend one's pace
  6. mend one's ways
  7. mendability
  8. mendable
  9. mendaciloquence
  10. mendaciloquent
  11. mendacious

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