atone
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(ambitransitive)To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
He tried to atone for his mistakes by working harder.
She gave a donation to atone for her past actions.
The ritual was performed to atone for sins.
Đồng nghĩa: expiate, propitiate, repair
- 2.
(obsolete, transitive)To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
- 3.
(intransitive, obsolete)To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
- 4.
(obsolete, transitive)To unite in making.
- 5.
(proscribed)To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From atone (reconciled), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (agreed), equivalent to at + one. Compare adūnō for the similar formation. Regarding the different phonological development of atone and one, see the note in one.