expiate
verb /ˈekspieɪt/
/ˈekspieɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they expiate | /ˈekspieɪt/ /ˈekspieɪt/ |
| he / she / it expiates | /ˈekspieɪts/ /ˈekspieɪts/ |
| past simple expiated | /ˈekspieɪtɪd/ /ˈekspieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle expiated | /ˈekspieɪtɪd/ /ˈekspieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form expiating | /ˈekspieɪtɪŋ/ /ˈekspieɪtɪŋ/ |
- expiate something to accept punishment for something that you have done wrong in order to show that you are sorry
- He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExpiate is used with these nouns as the object:- sin
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘end (rage, sorrow, etc.) by suffering it to the full’): from Latin expiat- ‘appeased by sacrifice’, from the verb expiare, from ex- ‘out’ + piare (from pius ‘pious’).