English Dictionary

expiate

/ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for. / (transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for. / (transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

He tried to expiate his guilt by doing good deeds.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

意味（2）

(transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for.

He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

[…] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.

意味（4）

(transitive) To purify with sacred rites.

Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his ſonne, or daughter, making them to paſſe through the fyre: or that demandeth of ſouthſayers, and obſerueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a ſorcerer,

意味（5）

(transitive) To wind up, bring to an end.

But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies ſhould expiate.