make amends

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Verb

make amends (third-person singular simple present makes amends, present participle making amends, simple past and past participle made amends)

1. (idiomatic) To repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.

   Synonyms: make up, atone, expiate, (obsolete) aby, (obsolete) abegge

   I hope they can stop fighting and make amends.

   • 1990, Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, “Being Boring”, in Behaviour, performed by Pet Shop Boys:

     We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"

   • 2011 January 25, Les Roopanarine, “Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC‎:

     But with the home side likewise unable to make the most of a period of first-half ascendancy, Villa were swift to make amends on the restart.

Translations

to repair a relationship; to make up; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress

Catalan: reconciliar-se (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: usmířit se (cs) Finnish: paikata suhteensa (repair a relationship), sopia (fi) (resolve an argument or fight), hyvittää (fi) (make reparations) French: obtenir satisfaction, donner satisfaction, se réconcilier (fr), se racheter (fr), faire amende honorable (fr) German: Genugtuung leisten Hungarian: jóvátesz (hu), helyrehoz (hu), (please verify) kárpótol (hu), (please verify) kiköszörüli a csorbát Icelandic: bæta upp, bæta, (to make amends for) bæta fyrir Italian: dare soddisfazione, farsi perdonnare, riconciliare (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Latin: expiō Polish: naprawiać (pl) impf, naprawić (pl) pf Portuguese: compensar (pt) Russian: искупа́ть (ru) (iskupátʹ) Spanish: reconciliar (es), desagraviar (es), hacer las paces (es) Swedish: gottgöra (sv)