expiate

[ ek-spee-eyt ]

/ ˈɛk spiˌeɪt /

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verb (used with object), ex·pi·at·ed, ex·pi·at·ing.

to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes.

Words nearby expiate

expert witness, expertise, expertism, expertize, expiable, expiate, expiation, expiatory, expiration, expiration date, expiratory

Origin of expiate

1585–95; < Latin expiātus (past participle of expiāre to atone for, make good), equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + piā(re) to propitiate (see pious) + -tus past participle suffix

OTHER WORDS FROM expiate

ex·pi·a·tor, nounun·ex·pi·at·ed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for expiate

These are autumnal deaths to expiate the sins of a people and appease the heavens so summer might return.
Three Great Men Died That Day: JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley|John Garth|November 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Can it, as the prophets suggest, expiate our sins and bring us closer to God?
The Enlightenment Diet|Bruce Feiler|September 27, 2009|DAILY BEAST
For thus only can they hope to expiate their great offence in the sight of Heaven.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844|Various
He could easily finish it in six weeks, and expiate the crime by months of journalism.
The Divine Fire|May Sinclair

One tale is of an old farmer who, after death, here had to expiate his misdoings.
Dartmoor|Arthur L. Salmon
The Sister, by what other virtues can she expiate a neglect of the claims of her beautiful relation?
The Young Maiden|A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
"We expiate the happiness of ten years in ten minutes," she heard the duchess say.
Modeste Mignon|Honore de Balzac

British Dictionary definitions for expiate

expiate

/ (ˈɛkspɪˌeɪt) /

verb

(tr) to atone for or redress (sin or wrongdoing); make amends for

Derived forms of expiate

expiator, noun

Word Origin for expiate

C16: from Latin expiāre, from pius dutiful; see pious

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expiate

verb (used with object), ex·pi·at·ed, ex·pi·at·ing.

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Origin of expiate

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British Dictionary definitions for expiate

verb

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