expiate
verb (used with object)
to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
will expiate
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future tenseof expiate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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By making her return the love of the person called Charlot, he will expiate her hatred for Chavel.
From Time Magazine Archive
And whoso feareth GOD, he will expiate his evil deeds from him, and will increase his reward.
From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by George Sale
I will expiate my fault in having forgotten this for a moment, by returning to the miserable cottage of my parents.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
Having forgotten it a moment, I will expiate my crime in the wretched hut of my parents.
From Famous Stories Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
I have escaped shame, death, perhaps, by a hypocritical falsehood; this deceit oppresses me; but I will expiate it by force of benefactions.
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue
