expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
are expiating
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present progressiveof expiate.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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For these radiant creatures are expiating sins of their own in thus striving to save others—the oftener they succeed the nearer they approach to Heaven.
From A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli
And too good reason have the French people had to lay such crimes to the charge of the aristocracy, who are expiating now, on the stage, the wrongs which they did a hundred years since.
From The Paris Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray
It is the sins of the lawgivers of the past that the poor are expiating to-day.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
The accusation and misery which sin brings generally either make us feel that we are expiating sin by what we suffer, or put us into a self-defensive attitude.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
If they have committed a fault, they have at least the plea that they are expiating it.
From Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author by Eugène Brieux
