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RECOMPENSE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of compensating for service or loss or injury

Synonyms:

compensation; recompense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recompense" is a kind of...):

correction; rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recompense"):

indemnification (an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance)

Derivation:

recompense (make payment to; compensate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Payment or reward (as for service rendered)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("recompense" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "recompense"):

adjustment; allowance (an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances)

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Derivation:

recompense (make payment to; compensate)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make payment to; compensate

Example:

My efforts were not remunerated

Synonyms:

compensate; recompense; remunerate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recompense" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recompense"):

recoup; reimburse (reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

recompense (the act of compensating for service or loss or injury)

recompense (payment or reward (as for service rendered))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make amends for; pay compensation for

Example:

She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident

Synonyms:

compensate; indemnify; recompense; repair

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "recompense" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recompense"):

give (deliver in exchange or recompense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)