recompense
/ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/ verb C2- To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
- To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage. · The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
- To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
He/she/it recompenses · Past recompensed · Past participle recompensed · -ing form recompensing
Verb forms
- Base form
- recompense
- He/she/it
- recompenses
- Past
- recompensed
- Past participle
- recompensed
- -ing form
- recompensing
From the library
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
The Partridge earnestly begged him to spare his life, saying, “Pray, master, permit me to live and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for your mercy to me.” The Fowler replied, “I shall now with less scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost of betraying your friends and relations.”
“Ah, sire, you recompense but badly this poor young man, who has come so far, and with so much ardor, to give your majesty useful information.
Noirtier are not on the best terms possible, and that is another sacrifice made to the royal cause, and for which you should be recompensed.”
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