transcription, транскрипция: [ ekspieɪt ]
( expiates, expiating, expiated)
If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done. ( FORMAL )
It seemed that Alice was expiating her father’s sins with her charity work.
VERB : V n , also V for n
• ex‧pia‧tion
...an often painful process of evaluation and expiation.
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