单词	expiate
释义	expiateex‧pi‧ate /ˈekspieɪt/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINexpiate Origin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of expiare, from pius; ➔ PIOUS Verb Table VERB TABLE expiate Simple Form Present I, you, we, they expiate he, she, it expiates Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they expiated Present perfect I, you, we, they have expiated he, she, it has expiated Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had expiated Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will expiate Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have expiated Continuous Form Present I am expiating he, she, it is expiating you, we, they are expiating Past I, he, she, it was expiating you, we, they were expiating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been expiating he, she, it has been expiating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been expiating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be expiating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been expiating Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES He spent the rest of his life trying to expiate for his sins. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea. As he walked he pondered dully on the crime he was trying to expiate, the murder of Clare's happiness. But it helps to expiate our imagined sins if we have a bogeyman to hand, a Drug Baron. He can be redeemed, he can confess his sins, he can expiate his guilt. Now, swept by red wave upon wave, she had to expiate her failure. Possessing no ecclesiastic franchise, they expiate their grief by posting an InMemoriam notice. formal to show you are sorry for something you have done wrong by accepting your punishment willingly, or trying to do something to improve what you did:  She expiated her crime by becoming a nun.—expiation /ˌekspiˈeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]
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