expiate是什么意思？

expiate

英[ˈekspieɪt] 美[ˈɛkspiˌet]

• vt. <正>为（所犯罪过）接受惩罚，赎（罪）；

第三人称单数：expiates;

过去式：expiated;

过去分词：expiated;

现在分词：expiating;

名词：expiation;

例句

• to expiate a crime 赎罪
• Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows. 现在我将在绞刑架上赎我一切的罪过.
• Even death would not expiate all his crimes. 死有余辜.
• He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt. 他有认错和赎罪的机会。

同义词

• v.
  expiate的同义词之：赎,抵偿
  off-set, redress, pay, atone, reparation, redeem, make, amends,

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  赎（罪);抵偿;补偿
  If you expiate guilty feelings or bad behaviour, you do something to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.
  例句
  It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work. 似乎艾丽斯正在通过自己的慈善工作来弥补父亲的罪过。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  <正>为(所犯罪过)接受惩罚;赎(罪)
  to expiate a crime 赎罪

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. make amends for;
  "expiate one's sins"