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Verb compensate has 6 senses
- compensate, counterbalance, correct, even out, even off, even up - adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
--1 is one way to balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise
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Something ----s something
- compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify - 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"
--2 is one way to pay
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- cover, compensate, overcompensate - make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities; "he is compensating for being a bad father"
--3 is one way to compensate, counterbalance, correct, even out, even off, even up
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Something ----s something
- right, compensate, redress, correct - make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
--4 is one way to change, alter, modify
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- pay, pay off, make up, compensate - do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"
--5 is one way to settle
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Somebody ----s somebody PP
- compensate, recompense, remunerate - make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"
--6 is one way to pay
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Somebody ----s somebody
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