He committed suicide to atone for his sin.
Source: tatoeba (297234)
Atone
//əˈtoʊn//
Synonyms for "atone" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
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2 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
50 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كَفَّرَ عَنْ verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Armenian
2 entries- թողություն տալ verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
- քավել verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изкупвам verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- изкупвам verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
Czech
1 entries- odčinit verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Danish
2 entries- godtgøre verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- sone verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Dutch
2 entries- compenseren verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- goedmaken verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Finnish
4 entries- hyvittää verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- hyvittää verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
- sovittaa verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- sovittaa verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
French
2 entries- expier verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- expier verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
German
4 entries- Buße tun verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- Ersatz leisten verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- Sühne leisten verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- Wiedergutmachung leisten verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Hungarian
2 entries- jóvátesz verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- vezekel verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Italian
1 entries- espiare verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Japanese
1 entries- 償う verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Latin
1 entries- expiō verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Māori
1 entries- whakamārie verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Old English
1 entries- ġebētan verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Polish
4 entries- odpokutować verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- odpokutowywać verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- pokutować verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- zadośćuczynić verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Portuguese
1 entries- redimir verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Romanian
2 entries- ispăși verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- ispăși verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
Russian
3 entries- возмеща́ть verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- искупа́ть verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
- компенси́ровать verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- dèan rèite verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- thoir èirig verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
Spanish
2 entries- expiar verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- expiar verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
Swedish
4 entries- förlåta verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
- försona verb (to clear someone else of wrongdoing)
- gottgöra verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
- sona verb (to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
He should atone for his sins.
Source: tatoeba (673269)
The salaryman went to live quietly in a remote area in order to atone for his sins.
Source: tatoeba (929666)
The death penalty is used as a method for making those who have committed crimes atone for what they have done.
Source: tatoeba (10122631)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.