amends
IPA: ʌmˈɛndz
noun
- Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
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Examples of "amends" in Sentences
- What Woods does to make amends is nobodys friggin business.
- If the Chinese have the good sense to make some kind of amends, then it'll settle down.
- a deep modification -- the idea of amends for the wrong done taking the place of revenge.
- Faced with the threat of a writ, the BBC – in a cowardly act of dhimmitude – made an offer of 'amends' and an apology on the Question Time website.
- The only kind of amends he could make for the other's hurt was to provide hands, feet, and strength for the man who did know what to do and how to do it.
- Later she would have to apologise to him. to make some kind of amends for what she was doing, but if she stayed in this room with Lewis even one second longer.
- The use of that exact phrase amends the Endangered Species Act by implication, Department of Justice attorneys argued, even if the rider didn't reference the specific law.
- While the wronger will admit no wrong, while he mocks at the idea of amends, or while, admitting the wrong, he rejoices in having done it, no suffering could satisfy revenge, far less justice.
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