🙏expiate (ex-pi-ate)

verb
/ˈɛkspieɪt/
expiation (eks-pi-a-tion)

Signification

to make amends for guilt or wrongdoing
Traduction de la signification
faire amende honorable pour une faute ou une erreur
faire amende honorable pour une faute ou une erreur

Phrases d'exemple

He tried to expiate his crime by helping the poor.

Il a essayé d'expiation de son crime en aidant les pauvres.
Il a es-sayé d'ex-pi-a-tion de son cri-me en ai-dant les pauvres.

Expressions d'exemple

expiate guilt
expiation de la culpabilité
ex-pi-a-tion de la cul-pli-bi-li-té

Synonymes

atone, redress, amend, compensate, repent

Antonymes

sin, offend, wrong

Collocations

expiate sin, expiate guilt, expiate crime, expiate wrongdoing

Vocabulaires connexes

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