MEANING
To compensate someone for a loss, service, injury, or effort, often through payment or benefit.
Use it for
Give compensation a measured, formal tone.Name repayment or redress in a formal exchange or reckoning.
Words that belong together
- recompense someone for a loss
- recompense an injury
- recompense for effort
On the page
The village tried to recompense the family for the ruined orchard.
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Word forms
- Base
- recompense
- Past tense
- recompensed
- Past participle
- recompensed
- Present participle
- recompensing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- recompense
- Present continuous
- am/is/are recompensing
- Present perfect
- have/has recompensed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been recompensing
- Past
- recompensed
- Past continuous
- was/were recompensing
- Past perfect
- had recompensed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been recompensing
- Future
- will recompense
- Future continuous
- will be recompensing
- Future perfect
- will have recompensed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been recompensing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
Formal verb; it can take the person as object followed by “for,” or the loss itself as object. The word is also a noun.
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