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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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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

Fourth act—he expiates his crime and sees a chance to regain happiness after a long, weary probation.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

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

Which crime, accordingly, Turgenef expiates with one month's imprisonment in the dungeon, and two years' banishment to his estates.

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan