atone
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
atone (atones, present participle atoning; past and past participle atoned)
- (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. [from 1680s]
- Synonyms: expiate, propitiate
- (obsolete, transitive) To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement. [from 1570s]
- (obsolete, intransitive) To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony. [from 1590s]
- (obsolete, transitive) To unite in making.
- (proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
- French: expier
- German: wiedergutmachen, kompensieren, gutmachen, Ersatz leisten, büßen, sühnen
- Italian: espiare
- Portuguese: redimir
- Russian: возмеща́ть
- Spanish: expiar
- Russian: искупа́ть
- Spanish: expiar
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