expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
is expiating
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present progressiveof expiate (3rd 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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Nobly she is expiating the past, and has long since worthily won the "well-done" of her moral self.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
Then said the mother, "Let him alone, it is a poor sinner who is expiating his crime."
From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Margaret Hunt
We believe that he still lives, and up to this time is expiating the great sin which he sinned against the saint; but they say that at certain times he is a lunatic.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor
A momentary instinct, which she is expiating fearfully.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green
Saton turned out of Bond Street, and climbed the stairs of a little tea-shop with the depressed feeling of a man who is expiating an offence which he bitterly repents.
From The Moving Finger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
