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To make amends, as for a sin or fault: These crimes must be atoned for.
(verb-intransitive)
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Archaic To agree.
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To expiate.
(verb-transitive)
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Archaic To conciliate; appease: "So heaven, atoned, shall dying Greece restore” ( Alexander Pope).
(verb-transitive)
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Obsolete To reconcile or harmonize.
(verb-transitive)
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