0 past simple and past participle of expiate
1 to show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment:
At every moment for the rest of eternity there will be sin that has not been expiated, wrongs that have not been vindicated.
The assertion that known sin should be expiated publicly for the edification of those injured by the sin is certainly consonant with traditional calls for public penance.
Thrift is treated as a crime, to be expiated by large and repeated fines.
We speak of the discharged prisoner as having "expiated his crime"; as having "paid the price" of his misdeeds, and so on.
He declared that all guilt had to be expiated on earth, and he meant in this world here on this earth.
He believes that in his willingness to suffer the penalty of the crime which he has committed he has expiated that crime.
They should not be released until they have expiated their crimes.
They have expiated their crimes.
