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Definition
to fix or make up for a wrong — especially a sin (even if nothing can be done to make up for the wrong other than to show regret)
- Whatever his crimes, he has suffered something to atone for them.Chapter 10 — Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson (59% in)
- If you have ever aided him in evil, help us now and so atone.Chapter 14 — The Hound of the Baskervilles (72% in)
There are no more uses of "atone" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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