To atone or make reparation for.
The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
To make amends or pay the penalty for.
He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
[…] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
From Latin expiātus, past participle of expiō (“atone for”).
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