expiate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make amends for

   Expiate one's sins.

2. 2
   verb

   To atone or make reparation for.

   The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

3. 3
   verb

   To make amends or pay the penalty for.

   He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.

From Latin expiātus, past participle of expiō (“atone for”).

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