expiate

verb5

1. •
   To atone or make reparation for.

   • The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. — 1702
2. •
   To make amends or pay the penalty for.

   • He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed. — 1876
3. •
   To purify with sacred rites.
4. •
   To wind up, bring to an end.

   • But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies should expiate. — 1609
5. •
   (no longer used) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.

   • […] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city. — 1829