0 to do something that shows you are sorry for something bad that you did or for something that you failed to do: --
I was trying, somehow and again, to atone for my own behavior.
Akkarat becomes a monk to atone for his failure of protecting the capital.
To atone for his ten-year absence, he traveled to the mountains to spend time with her while training.
Wishing to atone for his fault, he takes on his friend's responsibilities and considers his friends sisters as his own sisters.
I pledge to repent and atone for this crime for the rest of my life, she said.
We can prevent the sins of the fathers falling on the children economically, even if we cannot atone for the spiritual and moral tragedies of separated homes.
They will have to be very effective recommendations indeed to atone for the total failure of that interim report and the sad waste of time and money it involved.
They are the gentlemen who should persistently appear in sackcloth and ashes, though even then they would not atone for all the sins that we inherited.
