Expiate Synonyms

ĕk'spē-āt'

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Synonyms for Expiate

atone for
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make-amends
(Idiomatic) To repair a relationship; to make up; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.
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atone
(Archaic) To conciliate; appease:
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amend
To add to, delete, correct, revise, or otherwise alter.
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forgive
To show forgiveness; be inclined to forgive
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reconcile
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
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rectify
(Math.) To find the length of (a curve)
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aby
(Archaic) To pay the penalty for
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abye
Alternative spelling of aby.
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appease
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
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compensate
(Now Rare) To make up for; be a counterbalance to in weight, force, etc.
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Words Related to Expiate

pay-for
To be punished or held accountable for.
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do penance
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dishonor
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apologize
(Intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.
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Expiate Sentence Examples

  • From that time Conselheiro was a victim of remorse, and to expiate his sin became a missionary in the sertao or interior of Brazil among the wild Jagunco people.

  • At Rhodes she was worshipped under the name of Dendritis (the tree goddess), where the inhabitants built a temple in her honour to expiate the crime of Polyxo.

  • These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.

  • He was a typical Bourbon, unable either to learn or to forget; and the closing years of his life he spent in religious austerities, intended to expiate, not his failure to grasp a great opportunity, but the comparatively venial excesses of his youth.'

  • The second crusade, undertaken to expiate his burning of the church of Vitry, inaugurated a series of magnificent but fruitless exploits; while his wife was the cause of domestic quarrels still more disastrous.

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