Thesaurus:atone

Thesaurus

atone

English

Verb

(transitive, intransitive)

Sense: to make reparation for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency

Synonyms

• 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

• compensate    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “952. atonement” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “atone” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.