expiate 的定义
ex·pi·at·ed, ex·pi·at·ing.
- to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes.
expiate 近义词
make amends for
更多expiate例句
- These are autumnal deaths to expiate the sins of a people and appease the heavens so summer might return.
- Can it, as the prophets suggest, expiate our sins and bring us closer to God?
- Leave inquietude and remorse to those corrupt women who have cause to reproach themselves, or who have crimes to expiate.
- Our former lapses require tears, shame and sorrow to expiate them.
- Descended of an ancient and noble family, he was doomed to expiate a crime, of which he had been guilty, at Tyburn.
- After her abdication in 1367, Petermann entered the monastery to expiate the sins and follies of his youth.
- If this maiden on a Brahman casts her eye, devoid of shame, Let her expiate her folly in a pyre of blazing flame!