atone

IPA: ʌtˈoʊn

(transitive, intransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
(obsolete, transitive) To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
(obsolete, intransitive) To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
(obsolete, transitive) To unite in making.
(proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.

Examples of "atone" in Sentences

It leads into the headless heart: the belief that we should 'atone' by charity.
Hate the sinners who won't atone translates to hate the liberals who won't agree.
The Devil Wears Prada actress said she did not need to "atone" and justify the swap.
The original of the word atone, or make atonement, In the Hebrew scripture, carries no such idea of expiation.
IV. vi.72 (412,4) can no more atone] To _atone_, in the active sense, is to _reconcile_, and is so used by our authour.
And this, it may be added, is now the ordinary acceptance of the word; to "atone" is to give satisfactlon, or make amends, for an offense or an injury.
Blunt recently defended her decision to choose big budget blockbusters over independent movies, insisting she did not need to "atone" for her career choices.
Trying to atone from a broken heart last year at Winged Foot and a left wrist injury he blamed on Oakmont's rough, Mickelson missed the cut for the first time in 31 majors dating to the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie.
The verb "atone", from the adverbial phrase "at one" (M.E. at oon), at first meant to reconcile, or make "at one"; from this it came to denote the action by which such reconciliation was effected, e.g. satisfaction for all offense or an injury.