atone for

The U.S. government could try to atone for the many ways it has hurt its neighbors.

Merritt believed owning the house would help atone for the hurt she’d caused her children and bolster her efforts to repair their relationship.

Docherty told BBC Scotland: "The players wanted to atone for that."

The unpopular, aged president on his way out of office, with his legacy already sinking like a stone, delivered a lasting blow to himself to atone for dragging his last living son into all of this.

Perhaps out of a shared sense of guilt, Oppenheimer yearns to give these sinners a chance to atone for their mistakes.