atone

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• UK: /əˈtəʊn/
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• US: /əˈtoʊn/
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• US: [əˈthoʊ̯n]
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• rhymes with -əʊn
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 T OW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From atone (“reconciled”), from Middle English atone, attone, atoon (“agreed”, literally “at one”), equivalent to at + one. Compare Latin adūnō (“to unite, make one”) for the similar formation. Regarding the different phonological development of atone and one, see the note in one.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كَفَّرَ عَنْ (kaffara ʕan) — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Armenian: քավել (kʻavel) — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Bulgarian: изкупвам (izkupvam) — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Czech: odčinit — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Danish: sone — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Danish: godtgøre — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Dutch: goedmaken — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Dutch: compenseren — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Finnish: hyvittää — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Finnish: sovittaa — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• French: expier — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: wiedergutmachen — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: kompensieren — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: gutmachen — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: Ersatz leisten — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: büßen — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: sühnen — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: Sühne leisten — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: Buße tun — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• German: Wiedergutmachung leisten — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Hungarian: vezekel — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Hungarian: jóvátesz — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Italian: espiare — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Japanese: 償う (tsugunau) — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Latin: expiō — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Māori: whakamārie — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Old English: ġebētan — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Polish: odpokutowywać — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Polish: odpokutować — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Polish: pokutować — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Polish: zadośćuczynić — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Portuguese: redimir — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Romanian: ispăși — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Russian: возмеща́ть (vozmeščátʹ) — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Russian: компенси́ровать (kompensírovatʹ) — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan rèite — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Spanish: expiar — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Swedish: sona — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Swedish: gottgöra — to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime
• Armenian: թողություն տալ (tʻoġutʻyun tal) — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Bulgarian: изкупвам (izkupvam) — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Finnish: hyvittää — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Finnish: sovittaa — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• French: expier — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Romanian: ispăși — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Russian: искупа́ть (iskupátʹ) — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Scottish Gaelic: thoir èirig — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Spanish: expiar — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Swedish: försona — to clear someone else of wrongdoing
• Swedish: förlåta — to clear someone else of wrongdoing