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make amends for

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for expiate

make amends for

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The guilty need a saviour, someone to forgive, expiate and reconcile.
"We have appealed to the expiate Pakistanis to help us in different departments, especially education" said Malik, adding that he met Taha Qureshi during his recent visit of London where Taha promised to provide scholarship to students of Balochistan, which he has fulfilled today.
The reward one gets for fasting on this blessed day, the Prophet said, as recorded in Saheeh Muslim: "For fasting on the day of Ashoora, I expect from Allah that He will expiate the sins on the year before it."
To save man and safeguard the rights of justice and mercy, God sent his only Son into the world to atone for and expiate sin in our stead.
Injured soldiers hell may now lose possible MoD we have already Memory is so iconic poppies silence are there expiate the guilt decisions taken by our governments.
Punishments from God are injunctions to deter others and expiate sin for Judgment Day.
In his otherwise thoughtful article, David Harris says that Dietrich Bonhoeffer's martyrdom did not expiate the collective sin of Germany in permitting the rise of Hitler and Nazism.
Nawaz anyway already owes a mammoth donation to expiate his crime of attacking the Supreme Court.
It was concluded that the effect of guilt on altruism would be a tendency to expiate the guilt by doing something good for somebody.
Significant Euro coin investment (as well as a Cannes competish slot) speaks of a desire to expiate Western guilt, though such emotions would have been better directed toward a less polemical approach.
In his later years, he showed a wounded vulnerability and a desire to understand and expiate the Vietnam mistake.
For Ashton is an inveterate womanizer, and she has come to life to reform Ashton's licentious lifestyle in order to expiate her three-thousand-year-old sin of adultery.
Stringer said "Allianz's actions to expiate its guilt or make financial restitution should have nothing to do with a rejection of its bid," Sandomir wrote.
He has changed to the extent that he has managed to make public any position that guarantees his ascent to the apex of the American power structure and to "expiate" what Obama has begun to consider his original sin: the color of his skin and his Muslim father.
Of Gogol Kutik makes the following claims: that he secretly imagined he was divine and sought to expiate this blasphemy in his works; that his obsession with noses relates to a fear of insanity via the equivalence of nos/nous; that Italy was his 'platonic' country; that the plot Viy contains motifs of both patricide and matricide which reflect' a serious Oedipus complex' (p.