compensate
compensate is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
- transitive verb. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
- intransitive verb. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
- verb. make payment to; compensate
"My efforts were not remunerated"
- verb. 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"
- verb. do or give something to somebody in return
"Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"
- verb. make reparations or amends for
"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- verb. adjust for
"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
- verb. make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
"he is compensating for being a bad father"
Synonyms
recompense, remunerate, indemnify, repair, pay, correct, redress, right, counterbalance, cover, overcompensate
Common word forms
compensated, compensates, compensating
Words from these letters
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