Definition of "atone" []

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "IV. vi.72 (412,4) can no more atone] To _atone_, in the active sense, is to _reconcile_, and is so used by our authour."
• "Hate the sinners who won't atone translates to hate the liberals who won't agree."
• "Trying to atone from a broken heart last year at Winged Foot and a left wrist injury he blamed on Oakmont's rough, Mickelson missed the cut for the first time in 31 majors dating to the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie."