compensate
verbEtymology
Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.
- borrowed from compēnsātus
Definitions
To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
To make up for
To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
- His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
- To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
- The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
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To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
- I hate that old car because it steers a little to the left and I'm always compensating for that when I drive it.
- To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
The neighborhood
- synonymreimburse
- synonymoffset
- synonymacclimate
- synonymaccommodate
- synonymaccustom
- synonymadapt
- synonymaccord
- synonymamend
- synonymappease
- synonymatone
- synonymequate
- synonymexpiate
- neighborcompensation
- neighborcompensatory
- neighborcompensable
- neighborcompensably
- neighborrecompense
- neighboratone
- neighboroffset
- neighborreimburse
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at compensate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at compensate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at compensate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA