To bring into better state, put right, correct, amend, reform (faults, evil ways, etc.); to make good… To amend, make good (one's own faults); hence…

transitive. To purchase; to pay for, atone for.

transitive. To pay the penalty for (an offence); to atone for, suffer for, make amends for, expiate (a crime, one's sins, another's guilt, etc.).

transitive. To pay the penalty for or suffer the consequences of (an act); to atone or make amends for (something). Usually with it as object…

To pay the penalty of, suffer the consequences of, ‘pay for’; to expiate, atone for; = abye, v. 2 (of which it was probably an aphetic form: cf. bye…

transitive. To make amends or atone for (an offence, injury, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To make amends or reparation for, atone for (a misdeed, an injury). Also intransitive: to make reparation. Now only in the proverb leas…

transitive. To buy off. To atone for.

transitive. To make amends or reparation for (one's action); to atone for (a misdeed or offence). Somewhat rare after 16th cent.

intransitive. To pay the penalty or suffer the consequences, to atone or make amends, esp. for (formerly also †to) an act. Sometimes with a…

transitive. To pay for, atone for, make amends for; = abye, v. 2, buy, v. 3.

To make satisfaction for, atone for (a fault).

transitive. To quell the wrath or hostility of, to placate or appease (a person); to satisfy, content.

transitive. Chiefly poetic. To atone or pay for, to expiate; to bring into a state or condition by these means. Also: to procure respite of (time)…

intransitive. figurative. To make amends or atone for a crime, sin, etc.; to suffer or be punished for any fault or act of wrongdoing. Frequently…

transitive. To make compensation or atonement for (a misdeed or wrong committed). Obsolete.

transitive. To pay for, atone for, suffer for. Cf. abye, v., abite, v. Also intransitive in early use. Now rare (archaic in later use).

transitive. To make compensation or reparation for (a wrongdoing, injury); to atone for (an offence). Obsolete.

transitive. Of a person: to make amends or atonement for (an error, sin, or failing).

transitive. To make amends for (a wrong or harm done); to make up or compensate for.

transitive. To satisfy, give satisfaction to.

transitive. To expiate, atone for. Obsolete.

transitive. To pay or atone for (an offence, misdeed, etc.). Obsolete.

intransitive. To make amends or compensation for. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. 1393 at sense 5a.)

To purge oneself from, purge, expiate, atone for. (From 1 2.) archaic.

intransitive. To make propitiation; to atone for.

To make amends or reparation for.

transitive (by omission of for) To expiate, make amends for (a fault or loss).

transitive. To make amends or atone for (a sin). Now rare.