EXPIATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they expiate ... he / she / it expiates

Past simple: expiated

Past participle: expiated

-ing form: expiating

Meaning:

Make amends for

Example:

expiate one's sins

Synonyms:

aby; abye; atone; expiate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "expiate" is one way to...):

compensate; correct; redress; right (make reparations or amends for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

expiation (the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity))

expiation (compensation for a wrong)

expiative; expiatory (having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation)