Definitions for expiate

expiate ex·pi·ate

Spelling: [ek-spee-eyt]
IPA: /ˈɛk spiˌeɪt/

Expiate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in expiate (aeeiptx).

Definitions for expiate

verb (used with object)

  1. to atone for; make amends or reparation for:

Origin of expiate

1585-95; Latin expiātus (past participle of expiāre to atone for, make good), equivalent to ex- ex-1 + piā(re) to propitiate (see pious

Examples for expiate

Anti-republicans can only expiate their folly under the age of the guillotine.

Future obedience, supposing it perfect, could not expiate past offences.

Tell our father Kala-hoi, that we fear to meet him, and now go to expiate our crime.'

These are autumnal deaths to expiate the sins of a people and appease the heavens so summer might return.

He had thought of a plan to expiate his follies of the night.

Can it, as the prophets suggest, expiate our sins and bring us closer to God?

It was some comfort to think that fate had made him expiate our weakness.

But, whoever may have been the author, pains were taken to expiate the sacrilege.

"You have got to expiate," Etienne Rambert said with the same harshness.

Go to bed and sleep like the cherub you are, while I expiate here with my pipe.

Word Value for expiate
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16

Words with friends

17

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