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возмещать — meaning in English

vozmeshchat

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • indemnify verb To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  • offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
  • 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.
  • refund verb To give back money that someone has paid.
  • reimburse verb To pay someone back for money they spent or a loss they suffered.

Senses

возмещать is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • offset (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
  • 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.

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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