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compensare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
  • compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
  • equalize verb To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
  • offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.

Senses

compensare is used for these senses in English:

  • cancel (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
  • equalize (underwater diving) To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
  • offset (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.

cancel — full definition

  1. verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
  2. verb To make something officially invalid.
  3. verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
  4. verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.

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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