Expiate is valid Scrabble Word

Is expiate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is expiate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for EXPIATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to make complete atonement for
make amends or reparation for (guilt or wrongdoing)
make amends for
To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.
To purify with sacred rites.

ADJECTIVE:

Terminated.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to atone for

Words related to EXPIATE

expiated18 expiates17 expiating19 expiator17 expiators18

Words that contain EXPIATE

expiated18 expiates17 unexpiated20

How to use EXPIATE in a sentence

Till the time of the Reformation a pilgrimage to that shrine was a common form of penance for people of all conditions, and was supposed to expiate their sins.
Men could not live, if they felt they could not expiate their sins.
He had not to expiate the fault of having pleased beforehand in lofty declamation.
What must the end be? They must eventually expiate their sin through suffering.
Ought we to complain if God sometimes leaves us to obscurity, and doubt, and temptation? Trials purify humble souls, and they serve to expiate the faults of the unfaithful.
He murders his feudal lord, and goes on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to expiate his crime.
Shall I owe my rescue to the wave of pain? At moments I feel a kind of longing to expiate my stupid little sins.
I expected it, for it was the only thing left for him to do to expiate his old fault.
Having forgotten it a moment, I will expiate my crime in the wretched hut of my parents.
They have no political past, no political promises to keep, no political sins to expiate.

Did they think they should thus in some sort expiate their crime? It is doubtful.
The fundamental doctrine of the Hindu hell was that a certain amount of suffering undergone there would expiate a certain amount of guilt incurred here.
On the corner posts of his cage white strips of paper were posted, giving his name and the particulars of the crime which he was so soon to expiate.
In a century of repentance the Greeks cannot expiate the abominable crime of those weeks.
If one happened to discover an unburied body and did not throw earth on it, he was compelled to expiate his crime by sacrificing a hog to Ceres.
Wherefore it is clear that the priesthood of Christ has full power to expiate sins.
If he had not tried to expiate his guilt he would never have found out how great his crime was.
When all was safe I returned to my room, thankful that I had been able on the spot to expiate my murderous impulses.
I lived to suffer and to expiate my crime toward you, Elise.
He would have called for Sacrifices or Purifying Waters, to expiate the Appearance of such a Prodigy.
The consuls were directed to expiate these prodigies with victims of the larger sort, and to make a supplication for one day.
Before the consuls stirred from the city, however, they were ordered, as usual, to expiate the reported prodigies.
He was one of ten loyalists, devoted upon that occasion, by the parliament, to expiate, with their blood, the crime of fidelity to their king.
I will expiate my fault in having forgotten this for a moment, by returning to the miserable cottage of my parents.
That low scoundrel has dared to lay hands upon me, and he must expiate his crime in the most ignominious way.
He had the courage requisite to expiate the offence by standing before Mr.
But, in order to expiate the sin of avarice, which was my undoing, I oblige each passer-by to give me a blow.
Prepared as Christians, too, to expiate In meek submission all of our misdeeds.
I have often wondered if the world ever thinks of what becomes of the children of great criminals who expiate their crime on the scaffold.
Jake thought that if justice could have been awarded him, Chambers would either have had to restore that of which he had wronged him, or expiate the wrong in prison.

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