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. John Cryan:

   If banks make losses on their deposits, then they have to compensate with higher interest rates for company loans where possible.

2. Mark Smith:

   It takes us a lot of time and effort to find these donors, when we do find them, we want to keep them as engaged as possible and really want to compensate them for their time.

3. Xie Lianjie:

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

4. Stephen Herman and James Roy:

   We applaud Transocean for adding to the settlement funds established in the Halliburton settlement to help compensate people and businesses for their losses.

5. Osmar Serraglio:

   We are talking about hundreds of small farmers who are producing food for the entire country who are afraid they may lose their land and receive no compensation because there is no law requiring the government to compensate them if their farms become Indian reservations.