make amends for something Definition
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amend
verb
- amended, amending
1. To correct, improve or make minor changes to (especially a book, document, etc). Compare emend.
- Thesaurus: correct, rectify, emend, fix, better, remedy, revise, modify, qualify, repair, redress; Antonym: worsen, impair.
adj
- To make up for or compensate for (some injury, insult, etc).
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- A word often confused with this one is emend, which refers specifically to the correction of errors in written texts.
