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atone
[ uh-tohn ]
verb (used without object)
- to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed by for ):
to atone for one's sins.
- to make up, as for errors or deficiencies (usually followed by for ):
to atone for one's failings.
- Obsolete. to become reconciled; agree.
verb (used with object)
- to make amends for; expiate:
He atoned his sins.
- Obsolete. to bring into unity, harmony, concord, etc.
atone
/ əˈtəʊn /
verb
- intrfoll byfor to make amends or reparation (for a crime, sin, etc)
- tr to expiate
to atone a guilt with repentance
- obsolete.to be in or bring into agreement
Derived Forms
- aˈtoner, noun
- aˈtonable, adjective
Other Words From
- a·tona·ble a·tonea·ble adjective
- a·toner noun
- a·toning·ly adverb
- una·toned adjective
- una·toning adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of atone1
Example Sentences
Perhaps all the medals and ceremonies are our constant, insufficient attempt to atone.
He insists he is not atoning for his former career in the oil industry.
The radicals’ vision of acknowledging the horrors of the past to begin atoning for them carried the day as the Civil War reached its concluding stages.
Cynics said he had taken the presidency of the World Bank to atone for his actions as defense secretary.
What I did was wrong, and I have been atoning for the last 11 years.
You must atone, apologize, and beg forgiveness for the thousands of LGBT lives you have taken.
Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.
We all have a collective responsibility to atone for the actions of the U.S. and Israel in the coming weeks.
These “outsiders” are being invited to atone for their sins by leaving the new state.
I wondered how many centuries of purgatory it would take to atone for such a sin.
Because if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.
The old gentleman, her father, I have heard, used to atone for his weekday sins with his Sunday devotions.
He does not like children, and is satisfied to have Amy back, and is trying to atone for his former harshness.
"You have been very patient, but no doubt you will find something that will atone for my silence there," she said.
It seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.
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