Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense expiates, present participle expiating, past tense, past participle expiated
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. 赎(罪);抵偿;补偿 [formal] [Also VERB n + for]
It seemed that Alice was expiating her father's sins with her charity work. [VERB noun]