verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He spent the rest of his life trying to expiate for his sins.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aristodemus went home and found himself ostracized, a national villain until he expiated his disgrace by dying a hero at Plataea.
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As he walked he pondered dully on the crime he was trying to expiate , the murder of Clare's happiness.
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But it helps to expiate our imagined sins if we have a bogeyman to hand, a Drug Baron.
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He can be redeemed, he can confess his sins, he can expiate his guilt.
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Now, swept by red wave upon wave, she had to expiate her failure.
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Possessing no ecclesiastic franchise, they expiate their grief by posting an InMemoriam notice.