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atone
 
SYLLABICATION:a·tone
PRONUNCIATION:  -tn
VERB:Inflected forms: a·toned, a·ton·ing, a·tones
INTRANSITIVE VERB:1. To make amends, as for a sin or fault: These crimes must be atoned for. 2. Archaic To agree.
TRANSITIVE VERB:1. To expiate. 2. Archaic To conciliate; appease: “So heaven, atoned, shall dying Greece restore” (Alexander Pope). 3. Obsolete To reconcile or harmonize.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English atonen, to be reconciled, from at one, in agreement : at, at; see at1 + one, one; see one.
OTHER FORMS:a·tona·ble, a·tonea·ble —ADJECTIVE
a·toner —NOUN
 
 
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