verb
- paying the penalty for; suffering the consequences of
Usage: archaic; present participle of ‘aby’
Examples
- He was abying his past mistakes through years of hard work.
- The character spent the novel abying his earlier sins.
- She believed in abying one’s wrongs through good deeds.
- The old text spoke of abying transgressions with penance.
- They were abying their father’s debts for decades.