Compensate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPENSATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to be equivalent to
• give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense
• pay (someone) for work performed
• reduce or counteract (something unwelcome or unpleasant) by exerting an opposite force or effect
• act so as to neutralize or correct (a deficiency or abnormality in a physical property or effect)
• 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.
• To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
• adjust for
• make amends for; pay compensation for
• make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
• make reparations or amends for
• do or give something to somebody in return
• make payment to; compensate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to be equivalent to; counterbalance

Words related to COMPENSATE

compensated18 compensates17 compensating19 compensatory21

Words that contain COMPENSATE

compensated18 compensates17 decompensate19 decompensated21 decompensates20 uncompensated20 overcompensate23 overcompensated25 overcompensates24

How to use COMPENSATE in a sentence

• And if there is any treasure in that castle, I bid you give it unto those knights who are prisoners there, for to compensate them for the pains they have endured.
• In a treatise on grammar, a bad scheme is necessarily attended with inconveniences for which no merit in the execution can possibly compensate.
• The spill from this capacity of bucket being sufficient to compensate for the friction of the shaft journals.
• The boon of earlier freedom will not compensate this most numerous part of our population for the injustice and wrong done to the whole Jamaica people.
• Nor would our gain in this respect more than compensate for the strength which would be added to the rebels by despair.
• The result is we are pretty cold and clammy now, but escape from the soft snow and a good march compensate every discomfort.
• I then told them that God, to compensate for the weakness of man, had bestowed on him reason, invention, and skill in workmanship.
• Temin-Umman, however, aware of this internal weakness, made great efforts to compensate for it by the number of his foreign allies.
• If, perchance, home demand flagged, the export never failed to compensate in a great degree.
• The harm of the improved machinery may compensate its good.
• I have a daughter! You will, I hope, compensate me, Mr.
• Nothing however could alter the indescribable sanitary conditions, nor compensate for the fact that the cells occupied by these men were in many cases swarming with vermin.
• And in their eyes always that look as though, very shortly, they would hear some story so marvellous that it would compensate for all their present pain and distress.
• But by suffering out of love and obedience, Christ gave more to God than was required to compensate for the offense of the whole human race.
• Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.
• That which would forever compensate him for the agony, the madness of the past two days.
• Poor homesick spirits! Not even Heaven can compensate for the separation from beloved country and friends.
• Nothing that he can gain, not even the whole world, can compensate him for the loss that he suffers in the surrender of a high ideal of public duty.
• The truth is, he is a luxurious little fellow, and my society out-of-doors does not compensate him for the cookery at the Dun Cow.
• It should have made him feel, that England’s triumph, and increased dominion, could not compensate to mankind, nor atone to Heaven, for the ashes of a single Acadian cottage.
• We could only decide that the plain, severe, many-storied houses with the shops underneath had charms inside to compensate for their outward lack.
• Thus did he compensate them with the view of preventing any race from becoming extinct.
• There are several facts about making farms out of logged-off lands which should not be lost sight of, because they largely compensate for the labor spent in the undertaking.
• It would inevitably, I fear, lead to bloodshed which could not compensate nor be compensated.
• The environment which is necessary to compensate for an injury may become very narrow.

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