Expiate

expiate







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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    贖(罪);補償





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–verb (used with object)

to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes. 





 

What endures, though, is the doomed nature of an old tale, the ogre in his dark castle trying to expiate past misdeeds, the two innocent Romeo and Juliet-like lovers metaphorically locked in a high building, and the dreadful irony of their doom.

 



see penance excruciate