Atone vs Immediately - What's the difference?
atone | immediately |
To make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed.
(proscribed) To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
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As a verb atone
is to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed.As an adverb immediately is
in an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.As a conjunction immediately is
Indicates that the dependent clause describes something that occurs immediately after the independent clause's referent does.atone
English
Verb
(aton)Synonyms
* (to make reparation) expiate, propitiateDerived terms
() * atonable * atoneable * atonement * atonerAnagrams
* * English words prefixed with at- ----immediately
English
Adverb
(-)- I hope we can begin immediately .
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