| VERB | social | expiate, aby, abye, atone | make amends for |
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| Sounds | eh'kspiyey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | make amends for. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "expiate one's sins" | |
| Synonyms | aby, abye, atone | |
| Broader | right, compensate, redress, correct | make reparations or amends for |
| Spanish | enmendarse, enmendar, expiar, pagar | |
| Adjectives | expiatory, expiative | having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation |
| Nouns | expiation | the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) |
| expiation | compensation for a wrong | |
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