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ausbügeln — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.

Senses

ausbügeln is used for these senses in English:

  • compensate (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
  • iron out (transitive) To remove (a crease or creases) with an iron.
  • straighten out (transitive, idiomatic) To correct or rectify.

compensate — full definition

  1. verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
  2. verb To make up for a weakness or problem by adjusting something else.

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