Expiates [verb]
Definition of Expiates:
make amends for
Synonyms of Expiates:
● Remedy
● Rectify
● Amend
● Forgive
● Absolve
● Atone
● Excuse
● Redeem
● Redress
● Appease
● Correct
Opposite/Antonyms of Expiates:
Sentence/Example of Expiates:
Nearly every man who expiates a crime upon the gallows is a believer in the Bible.
There she expiates her wrong-doing by a life of devotion and expresses the utmost affection for me.
Thus, and these are extreme afflictions, this hapless wight expiates, and her expiation is brought upon her by her grandeur.
By bearing the sin of the world Christ expiates it, and thus takes it away.
So he renounces his desires, and expiates the sin of being alive by retirement from the world.
Fourth act—he expiates his crime and sees a chance to regain happiness after a long, weary probation.
The soul, in its transmigration, expiates the sins committed in a former state of being.
The blood that expiates and the water that cleanses flowed from the pierced side of a crucified Christ.
The true import of tragedy is that the hero expiates, not his own individual sins, but the crime of existence itself.
Nature makes these mistakes now and then, and the victim expiates the error.