expiate

You repeat a trauma continually, until you expiate it.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019

Titch wants to expiate the misdeeds of his childhood, and seeks the approval of his remote, inconstant father.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

She helps him expiate his guilt by contextualizing it in the story of his people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2017

In his letter he also quoted a Buddhist text: “Can a new wrong expiate old wrongs?”

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2016

He also seemed to be trying to do something more than expiate guilt.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he could only believe that the blood of the Lamb of God expiates all this crime which is so appalling to his mind, he would be at peace instantaneously.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

There she expiates her wrong-doing by a life of devotion and expresses the utmost affection for me.

From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Balzac, Honoré de

Thus, and these are extreme afflictions, this hapless wight expiates, and her expiation is brought upon her by her grandeur.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

The promise is that our guilt can be expiated by making money.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2017

Generally, there is—much later—a period of national reckoning when the sins of the moment of crisis are both expiated and forgiven.

From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2015

In 1932 when I visited Bulgaria I expiated this crime by buying a cartful of peaches and distributing them to a dozen youngsters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had the suffering of the vanquished expiated their guilt?

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of them had expiated their offence already.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

Farouk eventually settles in Ireland, and his narrative is braided with the stories of two other shattered men there: Lampy, young and lovelorn, and John, frantically expiating for a life of violence.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2018

If John Edwards had been as truthful and forthcoming about his personal misdeeds, he might not be as much of a pariah as he remains even after expiating for his sins in Haiti.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2010

This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public-penance which often lasted days and even years.

From Time Magazine Archive

He spent a large part of his life expiating one unfortunate deed after another and never rebelling against the almost impossible demands made upon him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Accused of treasonable converse with Bothwell, he confessed to the charge, and was, of course, in danger of expiating his crime by death.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various