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mended one's ways

mended one's ways is the simple past and past participle 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.

Questions about mended one's ways

What is mended one's ways the simple past and past participle of?
Mended one's ways is the simple past and past participle of mend one's ways.

Words near mended one's ways in the dictionary

  1. Mendaites
  2. Mende
  3. Mende syndrome
  4. mended
  5. mended fences
  6. mended one's ways
  7. Mendel
  8. Mendeleeff's law
  9. Mendeleefian
  10. Mendeleev
  11. Mendeleev's law

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