expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
am expiating
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present progressiveof expiate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Perhaps, like yourself, I have committed some great sin and am expiating it in this manner."
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
Then I am expiating for some one else?
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
"There are moments, my dear father, when the ideas of Monsieur de Maistre work within me powerfully, and I fancy that I am expiating something."
From The Brotherhood of Consolation by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Behold here all the crime that I am expiating.
From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various
