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expiates

VERB

make amends for

Synonyms

STRONG

absolve amend appease atone compensate correct excuse forgive rectify redeem redress remedy

WEAK

atone for do penance pay one's dues square things

Antonyms

STRONG

blame charge damage forfeit harm injure lose punish worsen

Example Sentences

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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

Mrs. Gaunt fully expiates her error before her trial ends.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

So he renounces his desires, and expiates the sin of being alive by retirement from the world.

From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary

How bitterly the unfortunate sovereign expiates her former triumphs!

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron