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# atone

«atone» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make up for a wrong you have done, by doing something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (atone, atones, atoned, atoning)

### meaning for a pupil

To make up for a wrong you have done, by doing something good or by paying for the harm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atone/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a wrongdoer who must pay, repent or do a deed to make up for a sin or an accident

### examples

- He promised to atone for all his faults. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atone/#x1)
- I will let him wander the world to atone for his sin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atone/#x2)
- He would pay handsomely to atone for the accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atone/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «atone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.