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- EXPIATE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
If you need to expiate something—that is, to atone for it—it’s sure to be something you recognize you shouldn’t have done People expiate crimes, sins, transgressions, and the like in various ways, such as by apologizing or trying to undo damage they’ve caused
- EXPIATED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
We speak of the discharged prisoner as having "expiated his crime"; as having "paid the price" of his misdeeds, and so on
- EXPIATE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Expiate definition: to atone for; make amends or reparation for See examples of EXPIATE used in a sentence
- Expiate - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
Expiate means to make amends or atone for a wrong you or someone else has committed After the incident on the hill, a mortified Jill expiated her guilt by buying Jack a brand new crown The shiny new crown served as compensation, or expiation, for the broken one
- Expiated - definition of expiated by The Free Dictionary
To make amends or reparation for; atone for: expiate one's sins by acts of penance To make amends; atone [Latin expiāre, expiāt- : ex-, intensive pref ; see ex- + piāre, to atone (from pius, devout) ] ex′pi·a′tor n American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition
- EXPIATE definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behavior, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work an often painful process of evaluation and expiation Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1 2
- expiate verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of expiate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- expiate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
expiate (third-person singular simple present expiates, present participle expiating, simple past and past participle expiated) (ambitransitive) To atone or make reparation for quotations
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