Verb
To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.
To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease.
To unite in making.
To make satisfaction for; to expiate.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. Alfred Jodl
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism. George Bernard Shaw
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers? Lewis Mumford
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. Anthony Trollope
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. Aeschylus
He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober. Latin Proverb