expiated

verb

past tense of expiate
as in redeemed
to make up for (an offense) Yom Kippur is the holy day on which Jews are expected to expiate sins committed during the past year

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expiated
  1. redeemed
  2. compensated
  3. repaid
  4. corrected
Verb
  • This ticket must be redeemed at one of the nine Florida Lottery offices throughout the state.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
  • McDonald's $2 breakfast sandwich deal can be redeemed over the holiday, but the fast-food giant also has travelers covered with a discount on gas at Shell stations.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of redeemed
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  • The modern athlete wants a larger say in how they’re perceived, how their intellectual property is used and how they’re compensated.
    — Justin Birnbaum, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Lille have compensated with a more youthful midfield, where 18-year-old tempo-controller Ayyoub Bouaddi was their undoubted star last season.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of compensated
Verb
  • If those IOUs are set to be repaid many years from now, they’re called bonds.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The school has done so before — in 2022, Hiram repaid over $6 million of loans from its endowment.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of repaid
Verb
  • Grammar correction and spreadsheet population errors are easy to notice, cheap to correct and usually cheap even if not corrected.
    — Fernando Fainzilber, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This story has been corrected to reflect that the GOP midterm convention is this week, not next week.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of corrected
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