to atone
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6.2
- verb
- /əˈtoʊn/
:
expiar
- Marcus had attended Candace's funeral, just a boy showing up to atone for the actions of a father he barely knew.
- atone for sins
And I will never, ever forgive that unless you atone and evolve.
- And I will never, ever forgive that unless you atone and evolve.
- So she locked him and the vampire mom up together because like she needs to atone for her crimes as well.
- And I ultimately ended up getting some very expensive French cream to try to atone for that, but it doesn't work.
- And so it required a payment of that kind of the sinless Son of God in order to atone for the sins that we've committed.
- Why is this happening? Not God is punishing us for our sins. We deserve it. It's our guilt. We need to atone.
- So the Jewish minority in Germany for whom we are atoning because we massacred their ancestors and we said never again.
- recognize your sins and you will atone for your sins of being an oppressor and you side with the oppressed and therefore you become one of the good people.
- And what they Yom Kippur is have to atone for something.
Examples
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I know you to be a good man, and you will find a way to atone.
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There is no doubt the US has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad.
Blog text (2) -
Tell me what to do, for I wish to atone for taking your life.
Fiction book (1994) -
There is no way for me to atone.
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Dear Sally, this is the only way I can atone for the pain I have caused you.
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I am on a pilgrimage to atone for the evil life I once led.
Fiction book (1999) -
Georgetown is, in fact, in the process of attempting to atone for its past.
Academic text (2017) -
They have done more than enough to atone for their original offenses.
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You must atone.
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He wants to atone for his mistakes by volunteering every weekend.
Synonyms
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3.4
To do something to fix a mistake and show you are sorry
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7.6
Save someone from sin or evil in a religious way
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9.5
To make up for a wrong by doing something good
To make up for a wrong by doing something good
To show you are sorry and correct a wrong
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Atone comes from the old phrase at one, which means 'in agreement' or 'together', and it once meant becoming 'one' with someone after a wrong. So to atone today is to try to make things right and be at peace with someone.