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What does atone mean?

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Verb
  1. to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed
  2. (proscribed) to clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent
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Is it possible for that family to make amends and atone for its ill-gotten gains?
Feeling reasonably guilty for my lack of input in our annual dissection, I decided I needed some intellectual nutrition to atone for my sins.
Fantasising about being a saint in the city and obsessing on the prospect of eternal hellfire, Charlie realises he must atone for his sins.
He will have one more chance to atone for his failure in the final of the triangular series against Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
It is patched up but it would be a generous gesture on your part to see her and atone for our collective sins.
As if to atone, Winslow brought two Acadian families back to Marshfield, where the town temporarily fed and housed them in the school.

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