Thesaurus:atone
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
(transitive, intransitive)
Sense: to make reparation for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- abegge (obsolete)
- abide
- aby/abye (obsolete)
- acquit [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete, rare)
- answer (obsolete)
- answer for
- assoil
- atone
- expiate
- make amends (idiomatic)
- propitiate
- recover (archaic)
- redeem
- repair [⇒ thesaurus]
- reparate (chiefly US)
Hypernyms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “952. atonement” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “atone” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.