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

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

Quoth one of the sages, "The doing of good works expiates evil deeds."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne

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 Victor Hugo

Such a man expiates his celebrity by a double bitterness; he is never altogether true, and he is never able to recover the free disposal of himself.

From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

To some, the sins of Auschwitz were never expiated; instead, a guilty society arose sleek and fat from defeat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had the suffering of the vanquished expiated their guilt?

From Time Magazine Archive

"He expiated his crimes two weeks ago at Fort Wilhelmina, your excellency."

From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

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

Then I am expiating for some one else?

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various