Usually means: Makes amends for wrongdoing, errors.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. atones: Merriam-Webster
  2. atones: Collins English Dictionary
  3. atones: Vocabulary.com
  4. atones: Wordnik
  5. atones: Wiktionary
  6. Atones, atones: Dictionary.com
  7. atones: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. atones: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. atones: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Atones: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. atones: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Atones: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See atone as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (atone)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To unite in making.
verb:  (proscribed) To absolve (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
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