0 to do something that shows you are sorry for something bad that you did or for something that you failed to do:
I hope to-day to atone for my misdeeds by speaking at a much shorter length.
However, as if to atone for being so critical, he takes a different attitude in debates such as these.
Once a child learns to lead an idle life, no amount of book-learning will atone for the loss to the community.
I personally have never believed in the idea that there is any ground for atonement, because there has been nothing to atone for.
Nothing, of course, could atone or will atone, until our programme is complete, for the shortage of war equipment.
No amount of compensation can fully atone for the loss of such a link if the people are expropriated.
The only way in which we can atone for the shortcomings of the past is to make certain that we do something effective for the future.
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.
