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expiate

/ek-spee-eyt/US // ˈɛk spiˌeɪt //UK // (ˈɛkspɪˌeɪt) //

赎罪,赦免,平息,赎回

Related Words

remedy补救措施,补救,补救办法,补救方法rectify整顿,矫治,纠正,矫枉过正amend修订,修改,修正,修正了forgive宽恕,原谅,赦免,饶恕absolve赦免,免除,开脱,赦免了atone赎罪,忏悔,赎回,赎身excuse托辞,借口,托词,原谅我redeem赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪compensate赔偿,补偿,弥补,抵偿redress纠正,补救,补救措施,补救办法appease抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息correct正确的,正确,纠正,更正pay one's dues交费,交纳会费,缴费,交钱

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·pi·at·ed, ex·pi·at·ing.

    • : to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake amends for
Forms: expiates
Synonyms
absolve赦免,免除,开脱,赦免了amend修订,修改,修正,修正了appease抚慰,绥靖,安抚,姑息atone赎罪,忏悔,赎回,赎身compensate赔偿,补偿,弥补,抵偿correct正确的,正确,纠正,更正excuse托辞,借口,托词,原谅我forgive宽恕,原谅,赦免,饶恕rectify整顿,矫治,纠正,矫枉过正redeem赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪redress纠正,补救,补救措施,补救办法remedy补救措施,补救,补救办法,补救方法atone for赎罪,代偿,忏悔,赎回do penance做忏悔,做忏悔工作,做忏悔吧,做忏悔的工作pay one's dues交费,交纳会费,缴费,交钱square things方物,方形物,方形物体,方形事物

Examples

  • 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!

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