Tolerate vs Atone - What's the difference?
tolerate | atone |
To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.
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.
As verbs the difference between tolerate and atone
is that tolerate is to allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference while atone is to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offence or a crime or a sin one has committed.tolerate
English
Verb
(tolerat)- I like the way he plays the guitar, but I can't tolerate his voice when he sings.
- I can tolerate working on Saturdays, but not on Sundays.
