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COMPENSATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compensate mean?
• COMPENSATE (verb)
The verb COMPENSATE has 6 senses:
2. make amends for; pay compensation for
3. make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
4. make reparations or amends for
5. do or give something to somebody in return
6. make payment to; compensate
Familiarity information: COMPENSATE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: compensated
Past participle: compensated
-ing form: compensating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Adjust for
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
compensate; correct; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up
Context example:
engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
Hypernyms (to "compensate" is one way to...):
balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize (bring into balance or equilibrium)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compensate"):
carry (compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance)
compensate; cover; overcompensate (make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
compensation (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make amends for; pay compensation for
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
compensate; indemnify; recompense; repair
Context example:
She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident
Hypernyms (to "compensate" is one way to...):
pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compensate"):
give (deliver in exchange or recompense)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Derivation:
compensation (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)
compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
compensate; cover; overcompensate
Context example:
he is compensating for being a bad father
Hypernyms (to "compensate" is one way to...):
compensate; correct; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up (adjust for)
Verb group:
cover; insure; underwrite (protect by insurance)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
compensation ((psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Make reparations or amends for
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
compensate; correct; redress; right
Context example:
right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
Hypernyms (to "compensate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compensate"):
over-correct; overcompensate (make excessive corrections for fear of making an error)
aby; abye; atone; expiate (make amends for)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Also:
compensate (adjust for)
Derivation:
compensation (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)
compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Do or give something to somebody in return
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
compensate; make up; pay; pay off
Context example:
Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
Hypernyms (to "compensate" is one way to...):
settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
compensation (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)
compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))
Sense 6
Meaning:
Make payment to; compensate
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
compensate; recompense; remunerate
Context example:
My efforts were not remunerated
Hypernyms (to "compensate" is one way to...):
pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compensate"):
recoup; reimburse (reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
compensation (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)
compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))
Context examples
The enzymatic activity of telomerase lengthens terminal regions of eukaryotic telomeric DNA by RNA-templated addition of repeated DNA sequences to compensate for sequence loss as the cells divide.
(Elongation by Telomerase, NCI Thesaurus)
A state of physiological or psychological stress that cannot be compensated for by normal adaptive measures.
(Distress, NCI Thesaurus)
Around the edge of the lake, the ice will flex upwards to compensate.
(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Methodology used to compensate a healthcare provider for care provided to a patient.
(Healthcare Payment Method, NCI Thesaurus)
A disease characterized by compensated hemolysis with a normal hemoglobin level or a mild to moderate anemia.
(Hemoglobin C Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
My daily vows rose for revengeāa deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
When in the brain, levodopa is decarboxylated to dopamine and stimulates the dopaminergic receptors, thereby compensating for the depleted supply of endogenous dopamine seen in Parkinson's disease.
(Levodopa, NCI Thesaurus)
Blocking TGF-beta in mouse models slowed NASH-driven liver scarring, but the number of eosinophils and amount of IL-13 produced in the liver increased to compensate for the lost TGF-beta function.
(NIH study sheds light on immune responses driving obesity-induced liver disease, National Institutes of Health)
Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase is also used therapeutically to treat Alzheimer's disease, compensating for the loss of cholinergic neurons.
(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Evidence suggests it actually takes about a 50% drop before the brain can no longer compensate and cognitive effects are seen.
(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)
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