recompense

recompense is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. 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.

10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
2. transitive verb. To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
3. transitive verb. To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
4. intransitive verb. To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
5. noun. An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
6. noun. the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

   Synonyms: compensation

7. noun. payment or reward (as for service rendered)
8. verb. make payment to; compensate

   "My efforts were not remunerated"

   Synonyms: compensate, remunerate

9. 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"

   Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair

Synonyms

compensation, compensate, remunerate, indemnify, repair

Common word forms

recompensed, recompenser, recompenses, recompensing

Words from these letters

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