Definition of "atone"

(transitive, intransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.  examples

(obsolete, transitive) To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.

(obsolete, intransitive) To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.

(obsolete, transitive) To unite in making.

(proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.  examples