возместить — meaning in English
vozmestit
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English meaning
- compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- indemnify verb To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
- reciprocate verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
- recompense noun Payment or reward given in return for something done, lost, or suffered.
Senses
возместить is used for these senses in English:
- compensate To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- 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.
- indemnify (chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.
- make up To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.
- reciprocate (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
- recompense To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
- recompense (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
compensate — full definition
- verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- verb To make up for a weakness or problem by adjusting something else.
indemnify — full definition
- verb To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
- verb To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury.