Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
- 2transitive verb
To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
- 3transitive verb
To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
- 4intransitive verb
To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
- 5noun
An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
- 6noun
the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
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- 7noun
payment or reward (as for service rendered)
- 8verb
make payment to; compensate
"My efforts were not remunerated"
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- 9verb
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"
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