expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
has expiated
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present perfectof expiate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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If ever a poor soul has expiated her own offence, she has.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
She succeeds, but her husband disappears, and she is not reunited to him until she has expiated her indiscretion by weary journeys and the performance of difficult tasks.
From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane
But let me check my resentment: She has expiated her errors by her sad and unexpected death.
From The Monk; a romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
The court cannot take up this crime until the prisoner has expiated the other one.'
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
He has expiated guilt, he has ascended into heaven, all power is his in heaven and in earth.
From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lionel Lisle
