expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
expiates
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present tense formof expiate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.
From Time Magazine Archive
This belief teaches that each man is bound to an endless series of reincarnated lives, in each of which he expiates the sins accumulated in the life before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Gaunt fully expiates her error before her trial ends.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
By bearing the sin of the world Christ expiates it, and thus takes it away.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
At the last moment Major Pitcairn meets his death, and thus expiates as far as possible his bloody orders at Lexington.
From Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot
