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atone

/uh-tohn/US // əˈtoʊn //UK // (əˈtəʊn) //

赎罪,忏悔,赎回,赎身

Related Words

redeem赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪apologize致歉,赔礼道歉,歉意,歉疚outweigh大于,大于等于,超过了,超过repair维修,修复,修理,修补square正方形,正方形的,正方,正直appease抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息reconcile调解,调停,和解,调和pay支付,支付费用,支付的费用,支付报酬absolve赦免,免除,开脱,赦免了propitiate劝解,劝慰,劝告,劝说redress纠正,补救,补救措施,补救办法expiate赎罪,赦免,平息,赎回counterbalance平衡,平衡性,相互平衡,平衡点offset补偿,偏差,弥补,补偿费answer答案,答案是,答案是什么balance平衡,平衡性,余额,均衡correct正确的,正确,纠正,更正recompense报偿,报酬,补偿,赔偿make amends赔礼道歉,补过,赔罪,补足make up for补足,弥补,补上,补

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·toned, a·ton·ing.

    • : to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender: to atone for one's sins.
    • : to make up, as for errors or deficiencies: to atone for one's failings.
    • : Obsolete. to become reconciled; agree.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·toned, a·ton·ing.

    • : to make amends for; expiate: He atoned his sins.
    • : Obsolete. to bring into unity, harmony, concord, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcompensate; make amends for former misdoing
Synonyms
apologize致歉,赔礼道歉,歉意,歉疚redeem赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪absolve赦免,免除,开脱,赦免了answer答案,答案是,答案是什么appease抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息balance平衡,平衡性,余额,均衡correct正确的,正确,纠正,更正counterbalance平衡,平衡性,相互平衡,平衡点expiate赎罪,赦免,平息,赎回offset补偿,偏差,弥补,补偿费outweigh大于,大于等于,超过了,超过pay支付,支付费用,支付的费用,支付报酬propitiate劝解,劝慰,劝告,劝说recompense报偿,报酬,补偿,赔偿reconcile调解,调停,和解,调和redress纠正,补救,补救措施,补救办法repair维修,修复,修理,修补square正方形,正方形的,正方,正直do penance做忏悔,做忏悔工作,做忏悔吧,做忏悔的工作make amends赔礼道歉,补过,赔罪,补足make redress纠正,补救,弥补,纠正错误make reparation赔偿,赔款,赔罪,赔礼道歉make up for补足,弥补,补上,补pay one's dues交费,交纳会费,缴费,交钱set off掀起,掀起了,掀起了一阵阵热浪take one's medicine吃药,吃药了,服药,吃药吧

Examples

  • Perhaps all the medals and ceremonies are our constant, insufficient attempt to atone.

  • He insists he is not atoning for his former career in the oil industry.

  • The radicals’ vision of acknowledging the horrors of the past to begin atoning for them carried the day as the Civil War reached its concluding stages.

  • Cynics said he had taken the presidency of the World Bank to atone for his actions as defense secretary.

  • What I did was wrong, and I have been atoning for the last 11 years.

  • You must atone, apologize, and beg forgiveness for the thousands of LGBT lives you have taken.

  • Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.

  • We all have a collective responsibility to atone for the actions of the U.S. and Israel in the coming weeks.

  • These “outsiders” are being invited to atone for their sins by leaving the new state.

  • I wondered how many centuries of purgatory it would take to atone for such a sin.

  • Because if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.

  • The old gentleman, her father, I have heard, used to atone for his weekday sins with his Sunday devotions.

  • He does not like children, and is satisfied to have Amy back, and is trying to atone for his former harshness.

  • "You have been very patient, but no doubt you will find something that will atone for my silence there," she said.

  • It seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.

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