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Synonyms for compensate
ˈkɒm pənˌseɪtcom·pen·sate
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
compensate
To repay or to retaliate, to punish or to reward, may be to make some return very inadequate to the benefit or injury received, or the right or wrong done; but to requite (according to its etymology) is to make so full and adequate a return as to quit oneself of all obligation of favor or hostility, of punishment or reward. Requite is often used in the more general sense of recompense or repay, but always with the suggestion, at least, of the original idea of full equivalent; when one speaks of requiting kindness with ingratitude, the expression gains force from the comparison of the actual with the proper and appropriate return. Compare PAY.
Synonyms:
avenge, pay, pay off, punish, quit, reciprocate, recompense, remunerate, repay, requite, retaliate, return, revenge, reward, satisfy, settle withAntonyms:
absolve, acquit, excuse, forget, forgive, neglect, overlook, pardon, pardon, pass over, slightPreposition:
To requite injury with injury is human, but not Christian.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
compensate
Synonyms:
atone, satisfy, remunerate, indemnity, reimburse, pay, requite, reward, recompense, make amends forAntonyms:
defraud, deprive, cheat, dissatisfy, injure, damage
Princeton's WordNet
compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even upverb
adjust for
"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
Synonyms:
chasten, even off, right, castigate, make up, neutralize, patch up, recompense, countervail, remunerate, even out, fabricate, counteract, make, decline, be, reconcile, oppose, correct, invent, adjust, pay, overcompensate, catch up with, manufacture, counterbalance, level, represent, even, rectify, discipline, comprise, even up, conciliate, repair, square up, cook up, flush, cover, chastise, redress, constitute, sort out, set, objurgate, jog, pay off, slump, settle, indemnifycompensate, recompense, repair, indemnifyverb
make amends for; pay compensation for
"One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
Synonyms:
even off, revivify, right, make up, animate, remediate, recompense, fix, furbish up, remunerate, even out, mend, vivify, amend, pay, renovate, bushel, correct, quicken, counterbalance, overcompensate, even up, resort, restore, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, repair, cover, reanimate, redress, revive, pay off, doctor, indemnifycover, compensate, overcompensateverb
make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
"he is compensating for being a bad father"
Synonyms:
brood, get over, embrace, right, plow, wrap up, enshroud, pay, make up, breed, recompense, encompass, overlay, continue, remunerate, even out, treat, hatch, incubate, report, track, extend, repair, cut across, cut through, deal, shroud, correct, counterbalance, underwrite, overcompensate, even up, address, spread over, hide, traverse, pass over, even off, comprehend, handle, over-correct, cover, cross, redress, get across, pay off, cover up, insure, indemnifyright, compensate, redress, correctverb
make reparations or amends for
"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
Synonyms:
right, remunerate, chasten, pay, counterbalance, adjust, redress, even out, overcompensate, discipline, recompense, correct, even up, rectify, indemnify, sort out, set, cover, pay off, even off, chastise, repair, make up, decline, castigate, slump, objurgatepay, pay off, make up, compensateverb
do or give something to somebody in return
"Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"
Synonyms:
even off, right, get, liquidate, make up, patch up, recompense, cover, fix, remunerate, even out, fabricate, pay back, make, be, redeem, ante up, reconcile, correct, invent, counterbalance, give, overcompensate, catch up with, manufacture, devote, pay up, represent, conciliate, comprise, even up, repair, yield, cook up, buy off, indemnify, redress, constitute, pay off, pay, settle, bearcompensate, recompense, remunerateverb
make payment to; compensate
"My efforts were not remunerated"
Synonyms:
remunerate, pay, counterbalance, redress, even out, overcompensate, recompense, correct, even up, right, indemnify, cover, pay off, even off, repair, make up
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
compensateverb
Synonyms:
counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, make up forcompensateverb
Synonyms:
recompense, remunerate, rewardcompensateverb
Synonyms:
requite, indemnify, reimburse, make amends tocompensateverb
Synonyms:
atone, make compensation, make amends
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "compensate":
offset, indemnify, compensation, remunerate, set-off, reimburse, counterbalance, off-set
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How to use compensate in a sentence?
From the outset, we've accepted responsibility for the two deeply regrettable operational spills in Bodo, we've always wanted to compensate the community fairly and we are pleased to have reached agreement.
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
What kind of evaluation are they going to carry out? If the houses were burned down and crops destroyed, how is it possible for them to fairly compensate us? I doubt it.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Saudi Arabia and Russia will struggle to compensate for potential losses in oil production from the likes of Venezuela, Iran and Libya.
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.
Translations for compensate
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- تعويArabic
- обезщетявам, компенсирамBulgarian
- [[eine]] [[Kompensation]] [[zahlen]], kompensierenGerman
- kompensoida, hyvittää, korvataFinnish
- compenserFrench
- dìolScottish Gaelic
- לתגמל, לפצותHebrew
- kompenzál, kárpótol, kártalanít, ellensúlyozHungarian
- 補填Japanese
- compenserenDutch
- kompensereNorwegian
- compensarPortuguese
- compensaRomanian
- компенсировать, возместить, возмещатьRussian
- nadòmjestiti, kompenzírati, nadòknaditiSerbo-Croatian
- ஈடுTamil
- పరిహారంTelugu
- zararını karşılamak, telafi etmekTurkish
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