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verb

Compensate v. t. (past & past part. compensated; pres. part. compensating)

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.

To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. "The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day." "The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries."

Synonyms: To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.

Compensate v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... when nobody could imagine he would stir. Nor was he ever backward in fighting, until towards the end of his life. He then was of opinion, that the oftener he had been crowned with success, the less he ought to expose himself to new hazards; and that nothing he could gain by a victory would compensate for what he might lose by a miscarriage. He never defeated the enemy without driving them from their camp; and giving them no time to rally their forces. When the issue of a battle was doubtful, he sent away all the horses, and ...

— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus

... could ever compensate for the loss of Monsoor, who had been so treacherously killed; at the same time, if Kabba Rega could prove that the guilt really lay with Matonse, the simple plan would be to ...

— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker

... Theos bitterly ... "Thinkest thou that even God, repenting of the evil He hath done, will ever be able to compensate us by any future bliss, for all the ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... with equal unreserve and frankness. "I am poor," said I. "Money for my very expenses hither I have borrowed from a friend, to whom I am, in other respects, much indebted, and whom I expect to compensate only by gratitude and ...

— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown

... however, he was misunderstood by the world, and he has died before that profounder recognition which he craved had time to mature. All the breadth and certainty of his fame failed to compensate him for the lack of this: the man's heart coveted that justice which was accorded only to the author's brain. Other pens may sum up the literary record he has left behind: I claim the right of a friend who knew and loved him to speak of ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 • Various

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