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# expiate

«expiate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make up for a wrong or sin by suffering or doing…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (expiates, expiated, expiating)

### meaning for a pupil

To make up for a wrong or sin by suffering or doing something good, so that the guilt is removed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a wicked person suffers or does penance to pay for a sin

### examples

- He tried to expiate his crime by giving his gold to the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#x1)
- The king expiated his sin with years of penance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#x2)
- Only a kind deed can expiate that wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.449/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expiate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expiate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.