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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.

adjective

compensated adj. Receiving or eligible for compensation.

Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary.

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Etymology of 'Compensated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the Quaker's mind by the coarseness of the quack was more than offset by the beauty and grace of the gypsy. When he looked at her, when he was even conscious of her presence, he felt a happiness which compensated for all that he had suffered or lost. He did not stop to ask what its nature was. He had cast discretion to the winds. He had in these few hours since his departure broken so utterly with the past that he was like a man who had been suddenly awakened from a long lapse of memory. ...

— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss

... youngest. It proved a means of ample support to the family. To some men, the fact that their children had been compelled to resort to daily labour, in any calling, for a support, would have been deeply humiliating. Not so to Mr. W—. That evidence of his daughters' love to him compensated for all the changes which circumstances, uncontrolled ...

— Home Scenes, and Home Influence - A Series of Tales and Sketches • T. S. Arthur

... was in the dust. The streets of his capital were filled with strangers, and the volatile Parisians were almost compensated for the degradation, in their wonder at the novel garb and uncouth figures of their enemies. The Cossacks of the Don had made their threatened "hurra," and bivouacked on the banks of the Seine. Prussian and Austrian ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various

... great diversity. The general characters are these: skin of a brown color, with yellowish tinge, often nearly the tint of mahogany; thick, straight, black hair; black, horizontal eyes; low forehead, somewhat compensated by its breadth; beardless; of the middle height, but thick-set; broad, muscular chest; small hands and feet; incurious; unambitious; impassive; undemonstrative; with a dull imagination and little superstition; with no definite idea of a Supreme Being, ...

— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton

... uneasily. There was something not entirely normal about her conversation. Though the rest of her compensated for that. ...

— The Perfectionists • Arnold Castle

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