atone
verb (used without object)
to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (usually followed byfor ).
has atoned
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present perfectof atone (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Two years later, Kyler Gordon has atoned for the lightning game.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021
And, in some ways, the precedent of how it has atoned for the Holocaust makes colonial reconciliation more difficult — raising expectations and setting up uncomfortable comparisons.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2020
Bastani has atoned for that night in more ways than one.
From Forbes ● Oct. 31, 2013
The penitence of many a heavy year, Of many a suffering, has atoned the deed; The church, which holds the key of absolution, Pardons the crime, and heaven itself's appeased.
From Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
Then he crept back to his blankets and slept the sleep of one who has atoned for his sins of omission and suffered righteously in the ordeal.
From Sundown Slim by Anton Otto Fischer
