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(transitive, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for. / (transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for. / (transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

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expiate

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Source Word

expiate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/

Verb

intransitive transitive obsolete

(transitive, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for. / (transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for. / (transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

Japanese Meaning

罪の償いをする / 償う / 贖罪する

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He sought to expiate his past mistakes by volunteering at the animal shelter every weekend.

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彼は毎週末、動物保護施設でボランティアをして過去の過ちを償おうとした。

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Sense（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for.

He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.

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Sense（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

[…] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.

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Sense（4）

(transitive) To purify with sacred rites.

Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his ſonne, or daughter, making them to paſſe through the fyre: or that demandeth of ſouthſayers, and obſerueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a ſorcerer,

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