sone — meaning in English

English meaning

• atone verb To make amends for a wrongdoing or mistake.
• do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.

Senses

sone is used for these senses in English:

• atone (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. [from 1680s]
• do (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.

do — full definition

1. verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
2. verb Used as a helping verb to form questions and negatives, or for emphasis.
3. verb To be sufficient or acceptable.
4. verb To fare or get on in a particular way.
5. noun A social event or party (informal, chiefly British).

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