mend your ways
Definition
› to begin to behave well, having until now behaved badlyBecoming betterMaking things betterMaking progress and advancing
(Definition of mend your ways from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Abstaining and refraining
- Acting and acts
- Avoiding action
- Cancelling and interrupting
- Competing and contending (non-sporting)
- Coping and not coping
- Delaying and wasting time
- Describing the leading position
- Efficient and effective
- Expressions telling people to hurry up
- Failing and doing badly
- Failures
- Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
- Hesitating
- Higher and lower points of achievement
- Hurrying and doing things quickly
- Making progress and advancing
- Making things better
- Performing a function
- Potential
- Reacting and responding
- Repeating an action
- Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- Success and achievements
- Successful (things or people)
- Surpassing in quality or number
- Taking part and getting involved
- Trying and making an effort
- Unsuccessful (people and things)
- Waiting
- Ways of achieving things
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Synonyms and related words:
- bloom verb (DEVELOP)
- by/in leaps and bounds idiom
- come alive idiom
- come along phrasal verb (DEVELOP)
- consolidate verb
- ennoble verb
- heal verb
- make a man (out) of sb idiom
- move on to higher/better things idiom
- on the up (and up) idiom
- perk up phrasal verb
- pickup noun (INCREASE)
- rally noun (IMPROVEMENT)
- rally verb (IMPROVE)
- sharpen up your act idiom
- straighten up phrasal verb (BEHAVIOUR)
- turn over a new leaf idiom
- turn sth around/round phrasal verb
- turn the corner idiom
- warm up phrasal verb (EVENT)
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