All atone synonyms
a·tone
A a verb atone
- redeem — to buy or pay off; clear by payment: to redeem a mortgage.
- apologize — When you apologize to someone, you say that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them. You can say 'I apologize' as a formal way of saying sorry.
- outweigh — to exceed in value, importance, influence, etc.: The advantages of the plan outweighed its defects.
- repair — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- appease — If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want.
- reconcile — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- pay — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
- absolve — If a report or investigation absolves someone from blame or responsibility, it formally states that he or she is not guilty or is not to blame.
- propitiate — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
- redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- offset — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
- balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
- correct — If something is correct, it is in accordance with the facts and has no mistakes.
- recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
- set off — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- pay one's dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
- take one's medicine — any substance or substances used in treating disease or illness; medicament; remedy.
- compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
- make up — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- apologise — to offer an apology or excuse for some fault, insult, failure, or injury: He apologized for accusing her falsely.