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Atone

//əˈtoʊn// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. ambitransitive

    "He tried to atone for his mistakes by working harder."

  2. 2
    turn away from sin or do penitence wordnet
  3. 3
    To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement. obsolete, transitive
  4. 4
    make amends for wordnet
  5. 5
    To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony. intransitive, obsolete
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  1. 6
    To unite in making. obsolete, transitive
  2. 7
    To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent. proscribed

Etymology

From atone (“reconciled”), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (“agreed”, literally “at one”), equivalent to at + one. Compare Latin adūnō (“I unite, make one”) for the similar formation. Regarding the different phonological development of atone and one, see the note in one.

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