amend
/əˈmɛnd/ verb C1- To make better; improve.
- To become better.
- To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. · We amended the rules so that we could admit 20 more members to the club.
Plural amend · He/she/it amends · Past amended · Past participle amended · -ing form amending
Verb forms
- Base form
- amend
- He/she/it
- amends
- Past
- amended
- Past participle
- amended
- -ing form
- amending
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At that instant she felt, that years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion.
“I do not know how you will ever make him amends for his kindness; or me either, for that matter.
I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to apologize for it, as well as to assure you of my readiness to make them every possible amends; but of this hereafter.
“There is some sense in what he says about the girls, however; and, if he is disposed to make them any amends, I shall not be the person to discourage him.”
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