Synonyms for compensate
ˈkɒm pənˌseɪtcom·pen·sate

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1. compensate

   To repay or to retaliate, to punish or to reward, may be to make some return very inadequate to the benefit or injury received, or the right or wrong done; but to requite (according to its etymology) is to make so full and adequate a return as to quit oneself of all obligation of favor or hostility, of punishment or reward. Requite is often used in the more general sense of recompense or repay, but always with the suggestion, at least, of the original idea of full equivalent; when one speaks of requiting kindness with ingratitude, the expression gains force from the comparison of the actual with the proper and appropriate return. Compare PAY.

   Synonyms:
   avenge, pay, pay off, punish, quit, reciprocate, recompense, remunerate, repay, requite, retaliate, return, revenge, reward, satisfy, settle with

   Antonyms:
   absolve, acquit, excuse, forget, forgive, neglect, overlook, pardon, pardon, pass over, slight

   Preposition:
   To requite injury with injury is human, but not Christian.

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1. compensate

   Synonyms:
   atone, satisfy, remunerate, indemnity, reimburse, pay, requite, reward, recompense, make amends for

   Antonyms:
   defraud, deprive, cheat, dissatisfy, injure, damage

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1. compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even upverb

   adjust for

   "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

   Synonyms:
   chasten, even off, right, castigate, make up, neutralize, patch up, recompense, countervail, remunerate, even out, fabricate, counteract, make, decline, be, reconcile, oppose, correct, invent, adjust, pay, overcompensate, catch up with, manufacture, counterbalance, level, represent, even, rectify, discipline, comprise, even up, conciliate, repair, square up, cook up, flush, cover, chastise, redress, constitute, sort out, set, objurgate, jog, pay off, slump, settle, indemnify

2. compensate, recompense, repair, indemnifyverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   even off, revivify, right, make up, animate, remediate, recompense, fix, furbish up, remunerate, even out, mend, vivify, amend, pay, renovate, bushel, correct, quicken, counterbalance, overcompensate, even up, resort, restore, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, repair, cover, reanimate, redress, revive, pay off, doctor, indemnify

3. cover, compensate, overcompensateverb

   make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities

   "he is compensating for being a bad father"

   Synonyms:
   brood, get over, embrace, right, plow, wrap up, enshroud, pay, make up, breed, recompense, encompass, overlay, continue, remunerate, even out, treat, hatch, incubate, report, track, extend, repair, cut across, cut through, deal, shroud, correct, counterbalance, underwrite, overcompensate, even up, address, spread over, hide, traverse, pass over, even off, comprehend, handle, over-correct, cover, cross, redress, get across, pay off, cover up, insure, indemnify

4. right, compensate, redress, correctverb

   make reparations or amends for

   "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

   Synonyms:
   right, remunerate, chasten, pay, counterbalance, adjust, redress, even out, overcompensate, discipline, recompense, correct, even up, rectify, indemnify, sort out, set, cover, pay off, even off, chastise, repair, make up, decline, castigate, slump, objurgate

5. pay, pay off, make up, compensateverb

   do or give something to somebody in return

   "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"

   Synonyms:
   even off, right, get, liquidate, make up, patch up, recompense, cover, fix, remunerate, even out, fabricate, pay back, make, be, redeem, ante up, reconcile, correct, invent, counterbalance, give, overcompensate, catch up with, manufacture, devote, pay up, represent, conciliate, comprise, even up, repair, yield, cook up, buy off, indemnify, redress, constitute, pay off, pay, settle, bear

6. compensate, recompense, remunerateverb

   make payment to; compensate

   "My efforts were not remunerated"

   Synonyms:
   remunerate, pay, counterbalance, redress, even out, overcompensate, recompense, correct, even up, right, indemnify, cover, pay off, even off, repair, make up

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1. compensateverb

   Synonyms:
   counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, make up for

2. compensateverb

   Synonyms:
   recompense, remunerate, reward

3. compensateverb

   Synonyms:
   requite, indemnify, reimburse, make amends to

4. compensateverb

   Synonyms:
   atone, make compensation, make amends

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1. List of paraphrases for "compensate":

   offset, indemnify, compensation, remunerate, set-off, reimburse, counterbalance, off-set

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1. Don Rosenberg:

   We deeply value our relationships with customers, rarely resorting to the courts for assistance, but we also have an abiding belief in the need to protect intellectual property rights, apple continues to benefit from our intellectual property while refusing to compensate us.

2. Nimrod Lemweli:

   What kind of evaluation are they going to carry out? If the houses were burned down and crops destroyed, how is it possible for them to fairly compensate us? I doubt it.

3. Drew Barrymore:

   When you're a parent, you try to compensate with so much love and you're almost afraid to get into the argument, so you let things slide and then you're like, 'Oh, there should've been a boundary in that place probably a while ago,'but I guess I'm only realizing that now.

4. Xie Lianjie:

   The amount of the fine cannot adequately compensate investor losses caused by corporate fraud.

5. Mark Belford:

   Perhaps the reason the Abercrombie deal didn’t get done was that they’ve got way too many stores in way too many malls that don’t make any money, and the cost to unwind those pieces and get out of those stores is just too great to compensate for the upside.