Definitions for expiates

expiates ex·pi·ate

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

Expiates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 235 anagrams from letters in expiates (aeeipstx).

Definitions for expiates

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of expiates

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 expiates

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for expiates
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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