0 past simple and past participle of expiate --
1 to show that you are sorry for bad behaviour by doing something or accepting punishment: --
These include the poet's coming to terms with a sense of artistic failure, and jealousies and hatreds that must be faced and expiated.
The minor prodigies were duly expiated with lesser victims.
Unlike prodigies, bad omens were never expiated by public rites but could be reinterpreted, redirected or otherwise averted.
I think this man has more than expiated his crime.
If the payment is received within the time allowed, the offence will be expiated, written off, and no inquiries will be made to discover who was liable.
This poor woman committed a crime which she would have expiated in the ordinary way by penal servitude if the law had not been allowed to fall into disrepute.
All done as a token political gesture—like medieval witch burning—so that other members of the committee controlling our exports can feel that our guilt has been expiated.
They have expiated their crimes.
