Expiate

Definition: Expiate

Expiate

Verb

1. Make amends for; "expiate one's sins".

Date "expiate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Expiate

Synonyms: aby (v), abye (v), atone (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Atonement	Verb: atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Expiate

English words defined with "expiate": Expiated, Expiating ♦ purgatory ♦ To work out. (references)

Specialty definitions using "expiate": Patrick's Cave. (references)

Etymologies containing "expiate": Expiable ♦ February ♦ Inexpiate ♦ Piacle. (references)

"Expiate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Expiate" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Expression using "expiate": expiate a sin. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "expiate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vë në vend (catch up, emplace, make good, make up, push on, put back, reset, set), shlyej (clear, discharge, forgive, liquidate, make good, make up, purge, redeem, satisfy, settle, Square, work off). (various references)

Arabic		‏كفر عن (atone, purge). (various references)

Bulgarian		изкупвам (atone, buy in, buy out, condone, make satisfaction for, purge, ransom, redeem, righten), изплащам (allow, clear, disburse, discharge, lift, liquidate, meet, pay, pay away, pay out, pay up, repay, settle, sink, take up). (various references)

Czech		odèinit (redress, repair). (various references)

Finnish		sovittaa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, align, arrange, atone for, build into, combine, conciliate, fit in, incorporate into, make amends for, mediate, suit, to adjust, to fit). (various references)

French		expier. (various references)

German		sühnen (atone, atone for, atonements, redress), büßen (atone, atone for, do penance, make amends for, pay for). (various references)

Greek		εξιλεώνω (atone, propitiate), εξιλεώνομαι για, εξιλεώ (atone, propitiate). (various references)

Hebrew		לכפר (atone, condone, forgive, pardon). (various references)

Hungarian		szakértõi szemle, kiengesztel (placate, propitiate, to conciliate, to placate, to propitiate), bûnhõdik. (various references)

Indonesian		menebus dosa. (various references)

Italian		espiare (atone, atonements, pay). (various references)

Manx		lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season). (various references)

Pig Latin		expiateay

Portuguese		opinião (advice, apprehension, belief, concetto, doyen, eye, idea, impression, judgements, judgments, mind, opinion, say, sentiment, sight, standpoint, supposition, theory, thinking, voice). (various references)

Romanian		expia (atone for), rãscumpãra (ransom, redeem), ispãşi (atone for, satisfy). (various references)

Russian		искупать (aby, abye, atone, atone for, atoned). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ispaštati. (various references)

Spanish		expiar (atone, purge, redeem). (various references)

Swedish		sona (atone, atone for, redeem). (various references)

Turkish		kefaret vermek (atone for), cezasını çekmek (bear the penalty of, complete one's sentence, get one's deserts, pay the penalty of, suffer). (various references)

Ukranian		спокутувати (atone), очищати каяттям. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	expiabis, expiabit, expiabitis, expiabunt, expiandum, expians, expiare, expiari, expiato, expiatus, expiatusque, expiaverunt, expiaveruntque, expiavit, expiet, expietis, expietur. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "expiate": expiated, expiates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Expiate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empate, epibatai, epite, exoite, expaiate, expat, expate, expigate, expilate, expirate, expirte, expitate, expite, sexvirate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "expiate" (pronounced e"kspēā't)
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, excoriate, expatriate, expropriate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, infuriate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, misappropriate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, recreate, renegotiate, renunciate, repatriate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-p-t-x"
	-2 letters: axite, etape, expat, pieta.
	-3 letters: apex, exit, pate, peat, pita, tape, taxi, tepa.
	-4 letters: ait, ape, apt, ate, axe, eat, eta, pat, pax, pea, pee, pet, pia, pie, pit, pix, tae, tap, tax, tea, tee, tie, tip.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, at, ax, et, ex, it, pa, pe, pi, ta, ti, xi.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-p-t-x"
	+1 letter: expiated, expiates.
	+2 letters: epistaxes, epitaxies, expatiate, explicate, extirpate.
	+3 letters: expatiated, expatiates, expatriate, explicated, explicates, extirpated, extirpates.
	+4 letters: cataplexies, exceptional, exemplarity, expatriated, expatriates, expectation, expectative, explanative, explicative, exploitable, explorative, exponential, expropriate.
	+5 letters: epexegetical, exasperating, exasperation, exopeptidase, expectancies, expectations, expediential, experiential, experimental, exploitative, exponentials, expropriated, expropriates, extrahepatic, sextuplicate.
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