recompenses
Meaning of recompenses
- make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.
offenders should recompense their victims
he was recompensed for the wasted time
late Middle English: from Old French, from the verb recompenser ‘do a favour to requite a loss’, from late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- ‘again’ (also expressing intensive force) + compensare ‘weigh one thing against another’.
Information about recompenses
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of recompenses is: recompense.
- Languages in which recompenses is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of recompenses
rec-om-penses
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- recompenses is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
recompenses synonyms
Meaning give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense:
Meaning compensate (someone) for harm or loss:
Meaning pay back (a loan):
Meaning repay (a person who has spent or lost money):
Words that rhyme with recompenses
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