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expiates

VERB

make amends for

Synonyms

STRONG

absolve amend appease atone compensate correct excuse forgive rectify redeem redress remedy

WEAK

atone for do penance pay one's dues square things

Antonyms

STRONG

blame charge damage forfeit harm injure lose punish worsen

Example Sentences

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At long last sister Anne expiates her negligence by dying.

From Time Magazine Archive

This belief teaches that each man is bound to an endless series of reincarnated lives, in each of which he expiates the sins accumulated in the life before.

From Time Magazine Archive

There she expiates her wrong-doing by a life of devotion and expresses the utmost affection for me.

From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Balzac, Honoré de

Which crime, accordingly, Turgenef expiates with one month's imprisonment in the dungeon, and two years' banishment to his estates.

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan

And this people, which expiates the crimes of its masters, does not rebel!

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)