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EXPIATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they expiate ... he / she / it expiates
Past simple: expiated
Past participle: expiated
-ing form: expiating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make amends for
Example:
expiate one's sins
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "expiate" is one way to...):
compensate; correct; redress; right (make reparations or amends for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
expiation (the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity))
expiation (compensation for a wrong)
expiative; expiatory (having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation)
