recompensar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- commend verb To praise someone formally for doing something well.
- 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.
- reward noun Something given in return for good behaviour, effort, or service.
Senses
recompensar is used for these senses in English:
- commend (transitive) To congratulate or reward.
- make it up to (idiomatic, transitive) To pay back; to return someone a previous good deed.
- pay off (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
- 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.
- reward (transitive) To give a reward to or for.
commend — full definition
- verb To praise someone formally for doing something well.
- verb To entrust someone or something to another's care.
reciprocate — full definition
- verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
- verb Of machinery, to move back and forth repeatedly, like a piston.