Expiate - English meaning

Expiate – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Make amends or reparation for (guilt or wrongdoing).
Usage examples:
Their sins must be expiated by sacrifice
Synonims:
Atone for Make amends for Make up for Do penance for Pay for Redress Redeem Offset Square Make good Make redress for Make reparation for Make recompense for Make restitution for Purge

verb
To show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment
Usage examples:
To expiate a crime/sin

Expiate translation into English

Expiate: translate from English into Chinese

赎罪, 赎

Expiate: translate from English into Dutch

Boeten, Weer goedmaken

Expiate: translate from English into French

Expier

Expiate: translate from English into German

Sühnen, Büßen

Expiate: translate from English into Hindi

निवृत्त करना, प्रयाश्चित्त करना, परिशुद्धि करना

Expiate: translate from English into Italian

Espiare

Expiate: translate from English into Korean

갚다

Expiate: translate from English into Russian

Искупить, Искупать

Expiate: translate from English into Spanish

Expiar

Word origin

late 16th century (in the sense ‘end (rage, sorrow, etc.) by suffering it to the full’): from Latin expiat- ‘appeased by sacrifice’, from the verb expiare, from ex- ‘out’ + piare (from pius ‘

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Expiate – similar words

expiation

noun
The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
Usage examples:
An act of public expiation

noun
The act of showing that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment
Usage examples:
The expiation of a sin, he would never find expiation for his guilt.

Expiation - all meanings in English

expiating

verb
Make amends or reparation for (guilt or wrongdoing).
Usage examples:
Their sins must be expiated by sacrifice

verb
Present participle of expiate
Usage examples:
To expiate a crime/sin

Expiating - all meanings in English

expiates

verb
Make amends or reparation for (guilt or wrongdoing).
Usage examples:
Their sins must be expiated by sacrifice

Expiates - all meanings in English

expiated

verb
Make amends or reparation for (guilt or wrongdoing).
Usage examples:
Their sins must be expiated by sacrifice

Expiated - all meanings in English

Expiate synonims

offset

noun
A consideration or amount that diminishes or balances the effect of an opposite one.
Usage examples:
Widow's bereavement allowance is an offset against income

verb
Counteract (something) by having an equal and opposite force or effect.
Usage examples:
Donations to charities can be offset against tax

verb
To balance one influence against an opposing influence so that no great difference results
Usage examples:
The extra cost of commuting to work from the suburbs is offset by cheaper rents.

Offset - all meanings in English

purge

verb
Rid (someone or something) of an unwanted quality, condition, or feeling.
Usage examples:
Bob had helped purge martha of the terrible guilt that had haunted her

noun
An abrupt or violent removal of a group of people.
Usage examples:
Many of us live in fear of a purge

Purge - all meanings in English

redeem

verb
Compensate for the faults or bad aspects of.
Usage examples:
A disappointing debate redeemed only by an outstanding speech

verb
Exchange or buy back for money; under threat

verb
To improve yourself, or to take action to improve the way other people think of you or something you have done
Usage examples:
After his poor performance in the golf tournament two weeks before, he was determined to redeem him…

Redeem - all meanings in English

redress

verb
Remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation).
Usage examples:
The power to redress the grievances of our citizens

noun
Remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance.
Usage examples:
Those seeking redress for an infringement of public law rights

verb
To correct a wrong
Usage examples:
Affirmative action to help minorities is intended to redress wrongs.

Redress - all meanings in English

square

noun
A plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles.
Usage examples:
A grid of ruled squares

adjective
Having the shape or approximate shape of a square.
Usage examples:
A square table

adverb
Directly; straight.
Usage examples:
The ball hit me square in the forehead

Square - all meanings in English

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