expiate
pronunciation
How to pronounce expiate in British English:
UK [ˈekspieɪt]
How to pronounce expiate in American English:
US [ˈɛkspiˌet]
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- Verb:
- make amends for
Word Origin
- expiate
- expiate: see pious
- expiate (v.)
- c. 1600 (OED 2nd ed. print entry has a typographical error in the earliest date), from Latin expiatus, past participle of expiare "to make amends, atone for" (see expiation). Related: Expiable (1560s); expiated; expiating.
Example
- 1. We 'd rather expiate with slavery .
- 2. Then look I death my days should expiate .
- 3. After my return to london I had to expiate in bed the consequences of my fatuous complaisance .
- 4. It 's what she carries with her ; the spot , the crime , the thing to expiate , always there between her shoulders .