atone (for)

verb

ə-ˈtōn How to pronounce atone (for) (audio)
Definition of atone (for)next
as in to compensate
to make up for (an offense) tried to atone for forgetting their anniversary by giving his wife a truly extravagant gift

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atone (for)
  1. compensate
  2. redeem
  3. repay
  4. correct
  5. expiate
Verb
  • Governments can also do much to compensate for an overall decline in the traditional working-age population.
    Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Trump, who quickly disavowed the individual, sought to compensate for controversy by taking the stage in Pittsburgh on Monday with the son of Puerto Rican baseball legend Roberto Clemente, in the city where his late father once played for the Pirates.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of compensate
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  • Delek Logistics issued $650 million in senior notes due 2029, using the proceeds to redeem its 2025 notes and pay off its term loan facility.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Quinteros said the two planned to go together to Little Rock to redeem the ticket, but Palma changed his mind and then went with his nephew the next day and redeemed the ticket without him.
    Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of redeem
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  • The city will repay the money using annual property taxes levied on all taxable property within the city.
    Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • If your first wager with ESPN BET settles as a loss, the sportsbook will repay that loss back to you in bonus bets.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of repay
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  • Palace staffers also can contact rota reporters to get simple errors or false reports corrected.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Correction: This story has been updated to correct a quote from Yum CEO David Gibbs.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of correct
Verb
  • The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • But now Epstein, 49, is wearing a different hat, and hoping to expiate his unintended sins against a sport that has been his lifelong passion.
    David Axelrod, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
Definition of expiate
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“Atone (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atone%20%28for%29. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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