wiedergutmachen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- acquit verb To decide in court that someone is not guilty.
- atone verb To make amends for a wrongdoing or mistake.
- compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- dispense verb To give out or distribute something, especially in measured amounts.
- expiate verb To make up for something wrong that you have done.
- indemnify verb To protect someone against future loss or damage, as an insurer does.
- retrieve verb To get something back, especially something that was lost, stored, or left somewhere.
Senses
wiedergutmachen is used for these senses in English:
- acquit (transitive, obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for.
- atone (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. [from 1680s]
- compensate To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- expiate (transitive) To make amends or pay the penalty for.
- indemnify (chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
- make up To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.
- retrieve (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
- retrieve (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
acquit — full definition
- verb To decide in court that someone is not guilty.
- verb To pay off or settle something owed, such as a debt.
- verb To free someone from a duty, obligation or charge.
- verb To behave in a particular way, especially in carrying out a task.
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