atone 的 2 个定义
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.
a·toned, a·ton·ing.
- to make amends for; expiate: He atoned his sins.
- Obsolete. to bring into unity, harmony, concord, etc.
atone 近义词
compensate; make amends for former misdoing
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- 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.