v .
to make amends 보상하다 속죄하다

• The verb atone is followed by the preposition for. To atone for your sins is to do something that makes up for the fact that you committed them in the first place.
  atone 이라는 동사는 전치사 for 와 함께 쓰인다. atone for your sins 는 네가 애초에 죄를 저질렀다는 사실을 속죄하는 일을 하는 것이다.
• The pianist atoned for his past failures by winning every award at the international competition.
• In the view of the victim's family, nothing the murderer did could atone for the crime he had committed.
• 명사형은 atonement