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abye
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[], (Verb)
Definitions:
- To pay the penalty for (an offence); to atone for, suffer for, make amends for, expiate (a crime, one's sins, another's guilt, etc.).
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Origin
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Old English (in an earlier sense). From a- + buy. Compare Gothic usbugjan to redeem (from us- + bugjan)
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