expiate

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/    美 /ˈɛk.spi.eɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To atone or make reparation for. ambitransitive
    — The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
  2. To make amends or pay the penalty for. transitive
    — He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
  3. To relieve or cleanse of guilt. obsolete,transitive
    — […] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
  4. To purify with sacred rites. transitive
    — 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,
  5. To wind up, bring to an end. transitive
    — But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies ſhould expiate.

词形变化

expiates present,singular,third-person expiating participle,present expiated participle,past expiated past

词汇关系

衍生词
inexpiate unexpiated
相关词
expiation expiator expiatory

词源

From Latin expiātus, past participle of expiō (“atone for”).
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