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verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.
to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes.
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Expiate
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is forestall. Does it mean:
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| prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance |
Example Sentences
- They now have their court novelists, along with their psychiatrists and then- debt counselors, to expiate the evil spirits.
- But when he falls in love with one of the deportees, the girl with the bewitching eyes, he begins to expiate his sins.
- If the play is Eliot's attempt to expiate his sin, it is no wonder he later renounced it.
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expiate
c.1600, from L. expiatus (see expiation). Related: Expiated; expiating.
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