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synonyms for expiate

  • absolve
  • amend
  • appease
  • atone
  • compensate
  • correct
  • excuse
  • forgive
  • rectify
  • redeem
  • redress
  • remedy
  • atone for
  • do penance
  • pay one's dues
  • square things
See also synonyms for: expiates
On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expiate, such as: absolve, amend, appease, atone, compensate, and correct.

antonyms for expiate

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  • blame
  • charge
  • damage
  • forfeit
  • harm
  • injure
  • lose
  • punish
  • worsen
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How to use expiate in a sentence

In 1994 after Mandela became president of South Africa, he made Tutu the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a national tribunal to try to expiate the sins of apartheid.
A FEARLESS BEACON OF MORAL JUSTICE: REMEMBERING DESMOND TUTURICHARD STENGELDECEMBER 27, 2021TIME
Leave inquietude and remorse to those corrupt women who have cause to reproach themselves, or who have crimes to expiate.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACH
Our former lapses require tears, shame and sorrow to expiate them.
THE LOVE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISEPETER ABELARD
Descended of an ancient and noble family, he was doomed to expiate a crime, of which he had been guilty, at Tyburn.
THE CHRONICLES OF CRIME OR THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. V. 1/2CAMDEN PELHAM
After her abdication in 1367, Petermann entered the monastery to expiate the sins and follies of his youth.
TYROL AND ITS PEOPLECLIVE HOLLAND
If this maiden on a Brahman casts her eye, devoid of shame, Let her expiate her folly in a pyre of blazing flame!
MAHA-BHARATAANONYMOUS
The Freethinker, treated as a moral leper, is driven from his home and goes abroad to expiate his sin of unorthodoxy.
LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, VOL. 15VARIOUS
For he was able to expiate sins by dying, because He both died, and not for sin of His own.
THE CITY OF GOD, VOLUME IAURELIUS AUGUSTINE
Some we read baptized to appease the wrath of the Gods and to expiate sin.
WATER BAPTISMJAMES H. MOON
As you say, you have suffered enough already to expiate your fault.
THE LOST LADY OF LONEE.D.E.N. SOUTHWORTH
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO EXPIATE

  • absolve
  • answer
  • apologize
  • appease
  • balance
  • correct
  • counterbalance
  • do penance
  • expiate
  • make amends
  • make redress
  • make reparation
  • make up for
  • offset
  • outweigh
  • pay
  • pay one's dues
  • propitiate
  • recompense
  • reconcile
  • redeem
  • redress
  • repair
  • set off
  • square
  • take one's medicine
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.