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Definition of atone in English: atoneverb əˈtəʊnəˈtoʊn [no object]Make amends or reparation. 赎罪；弥补 a human sacrifice to atone for the sin 用人作祭品来赎罪。 Example sentencesExamples - Still, an Ashes series has been lost and lost badly, something for which yesterday's win can compensate but not atone.
- This, they hold, gives the man a chance to atone for any hasty decision he might have taken.
- He will have one more chance to atone for his failure in the final of the triangular series against Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
- He will inspire us with his own story, the story of the World Bank, which represents the collective good will of the industrialized West, atoning for centuries of colonialism by working to vanquish poverty from the developing world.
- None of this atones for what he did earlier in his career to deny and delay the full rights of citizenship for black Americans.
- I was never sure what I was supposed to be atoning for.
- Whoever it was who said you spend the first half of your life doing things you spend the second half of your life atoning for was absolutely right.
- Having atoned for one World Cup cock-up, he is expected to build for the next tournament, which just happens to be in France.
- Winger Dave Kilbride added the conversion that partially atoned for an earlier penalty miss to put the visitors seven points up after twenty-two minutes.
- Is it possible for that family to make amends and atone for its ill-gotten gains?
- Eleven long years later, Langer may have a chance to atone for that miss.
- His successors on Chicago's south side have a chance to atone for those sins this week.
- I realized that the decency of one man atones for the indecency of millions.
- Gollum is a murderer and liar, but he is also a broken-down, pathetic creature, whose torture at the hands of Sauron's minions atoned for many sins.
- He is desperate to be given a chance to atone for the worst experience of his fledgling career.
Synonyms make amends, make reparation, make restitution, make recompense, make redress, make up for, compensate, pay, pay the penalty, pay the price, recompense, answer expiate, make good, offset do penance, redeem oneself, redress the balance formal requite
OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense 'make or become united or reconciled', rare before the 16th century): from at one in early use; later by back-formation from atonement. Rhymesalone, Beaune, bemoan, blown, bone, Capone, clone, Cohn, Cologne, condone, cone, co-own, crone, drone, enthrone, flown, foreknown, foreshown, groan, grown, half-tone, home-grown, hone, Joan, known, leone, loan, lone, mephedrone, moan, Mon, mown, ochone, outflown, outgrown, own, phone, pone, prone, Rhône, roan, rone, sewn, shown, Simone, Sloane, Soane, sone, sown, stone, strown, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, Tyrone, unbeknown, undersown, windblown, zone Definition of atone in US English: atoneverbəˈtoʊnəˈtōn [no object]Make amends or reparation. 赎罪；弥补 he was being helpful, to atone for his past mistakes Example sentencesExamples - Whoever it was who said you spend the first half of your life doing things you spend the second half of your life atoning for was absolutely right.
- Is it possible for that family to make amends and atone for its ill-gotten gains?
- This, they hold, gives the man a chance to atone for any hasty decision he might have taken.
- I was never sure what I was supposed to be atoning for.
- Eleven long years later, Langer may have a chance to atone for that miss.
- He will inspire us with his own story, the story of the World Bank, which represents the collective good will of the industrialized West, atoning for centuries of colonialism by working to vanquish poverty from the developing world.
- Winger Dave Kilbride added the conversion that partially atoned for an earlier penalty miss to put the visitors seven points up after twenty-two minutes.
- Having atoned for one World Cup cock-up, he is expected to build for the next tournament, which just happens to be in France.
- He will have one more chance to atone for his failure in the final of the triangular series against Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
- Still, an Ashes series has been lost and lost badly, something for which yesterday's win can compensate but not atone.
- He is desperate to be given a chance to atone for the worst experience of his fledgling career.
- His successors on Chicago's south side have a chance to atone for those sins this week.
- None of this atones for what he did earlier in his career to deny and delay the full rights of citizenship for black Americans.
- Gollum is a murderer and liar, but he is also a broken-down, pathetic creature, whose torture at the hands of Sauron's minions atoned for many sins.
- I realized that the decency of one man atones for the indecency of millions.
Synonyms make amends, make reparation, make restitution, make recompense, make redress, make up for, compensate, pay, pay the penalty, pay the price, recompense, answer
OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘make or become united or reconciled’, rare before the 16th century): from at one in early use; later by back-formation from atonement. |