˜yÐÄvlog

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expiate

[ ek-spee-eyt ]

verb (used with object)

expiated, expiating.
  1. to atone for; make amends or reparation for:

    to expiate one's crimes.



expiate

/ ˈɛ°ì²õ±èɪˌ±ðɪ³Ù /

verb

  1. tr to atone for or redress (sin or wrongdoing); make amends for
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±ð³æ±è¾±ËŒ²¹³Ù´Ç°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ð³æp¾±Â·²¹î€…t´Ç°ù noun
  • ³Ü²Ô·±ð³æp¾±Â·²¹³Ùe»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of expiate1

1585–95; < Latin ±ð³æ±è¾±Äå³Ù³Ü²õ (past participle of ±ð³æ±è¾±Äå°ù±ð to atone for, make good), equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + ±è¾±Äå ( re ) to propitiate ( pious ) + -tus past participle suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of expiate1

C16: from Latin ±ð³æ±è¾±Äå°ù±ð, from pius dutiful; see pious
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The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.

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I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work.

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He spent a large part of his life expiating one unfortunate deed after another and never rebelling against the almost impossible demands made upon him.

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Middle-class white students expiating their guilt over the death of Martin Luther King—that was how many viewed the demonstrations.

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In this airbrushed history, America expiated its original sin of slavery with the massive bloodletting that was our Civil War.

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