Translations for „expiate“ in the English » Arabic Dictionary

expiate VB REL

expiate

كَفَّرَ عَنْ

expiate an oath VB

expiate an oath

حَلّلَ اليَمِينَ

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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These were expiated by the sacrifice of greater victims.

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Call it an expiation for not adequately expiating.

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The type of sin that may be expiated through pilgrimages is referred to as anuptakas.

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A meaningless gesture designed primarily to expiate white guilt?

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It was simply their poise at the critical moment, with the chance to expiate over a century of pain, that failed them.

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Just don't try to force others to do something to expiate your own sense of having committed a crime.

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Original sin... is an infection of human nature itself, so that, unlike actual sin, it could not be expiated by the satisfaction of a mere man.

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His wish was to have his statue be stepped on by as many people as possible in order to expiate the crimes he committed in life.

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There are fourteen women who live in the small, dilapidated two-story house, sent there to expiate bad karma, as well as to relieve their families of financial and emotional burdens.

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Expiate in line 4 formerly caused some confusion, since the context does not seem to include a need for atonement.

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