amends

/əˈmɛndz/

意味: 償い

例文: Fluffin made amends with a rainbow dance.
    フラッフィンは虹のダンスで償いをした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: make amends(償いをする), offer amends(償いを提供する), seek amends(償いを求める)

定義: 損害や過失を補うための行動や補償を指す。通常、過去の行動や言動によって引き起こされた問題や不快感を解消するために行われる。個人間の関係修復や、法的な文脈での賠償金の支払いなどが含まれる。amendsは、しばしば「make amends」というフレーズで使用され、過去の過ちを正すための努力を示す。

amendsは約500,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度(具体・概念)、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

 年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

 

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Definitions(定義)

Noun: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Noun: something done or paid in expiation of a wrong
Verb: make amendments to
Verb: to make better
Verb: set straight or right

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文:

She made amends with her friend after their argument.(彼女は喧嘩の後、友達と仲直りした。)
I’ll call him to make amends; we need to clear this up.(彼に連絡して仲直りするつもりだ;これを解決する必要がある。)
The committee proposed several measures to make amends for their oversight.(委員会は彼らの見落としを償うためにいくつかの対策を提案した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文:

Noun: how can I make amends
Verb: amend the document
Verb: The editor improved the manuscript with his changes
Verb: remedy these deficiencies
Verb: rectify the inequities in salaries
Verb: repair an oversight

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): ameliorate, amend, amends, better, damages, improve, indemnification, indemnity, meliorate, rectify, redress, remediate, remedy, repair, reparation, restitution

Antonyms(反意語): worsen

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, compensation, correct, expiation, revise

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, amend, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blood money, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterbalance, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, damages, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, debug, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, emolument, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, overcompensation, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, professionalize, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, rectify, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, reimbursement, relax, remodel, reparation, restore, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, workmen’s compensation, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): actual damages, advance, atonement, build, build up, condition, educate, emend, enhance, enrich, fancify, fructify, help, iron out, nominal damages, perfect, polish, punitive damages, purify, raise, reform, regenerate, relief, relieve, repair, turn around, upgrade

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: amelioration, ameliorative, amelioratory, amendable, amendatory, amendment, better, betterment, improvement, improver, indemnify, melioration, meliorative, rectification, rectifier, redress, remediation, remedy, repair, reparation

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, law

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): s

Exam Level

英検1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive

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