atone
verbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//əˈtəʊn//
- États-Unis//əˈtoʊn//
- États-Unis/[əˈtʰoʊ̯n]/
To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
verbe
- 1
To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
He tried to atone for his mistakes by working harder.
She gave a donation to atone for her past actions.
The ritual was performed to atone for sins.
- 2
obsolèteTo bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
- 3
obsolèteTo agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
- 4
obsolèteTo unite in making.
- 5
To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
Étymologie
From atone (“reconciled”), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (“agreed”, literally “at one”), equivalent to at + one. Compare Latin adūnō (“to unite, make one”) for the similar formation. Regarding the different phonological development of atone and one, see the note in one.
Formes
- passé
- atoned
- participe passé
- atoned
- participe présent
- atoning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- atones
atone · To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
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