wiedergutmachen — meaning in English

English meaning

• acquit verb To declare or find innocent or 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 atone or make reparation for.
• indemnify verb To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
• 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

1. verb To declare or find innocent or not guilty.
2. verb To discharge (for example, a claim or debt); to clear off, to pay off; to fulfil.
3. verb to discharge, release, or set free from a burden, duty, liability, or obligation, or from an accusation or charge.
4. verb To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one's part.

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