recompense
verb (used with object)
to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
have recompensed
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present perfectof recompense.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"I would have recompensed you adequately," the former college official replied.
From The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
She whose happiness might partly have recompensed him for what he had to do, he must still leave unhappy.
From The Triflers by Frederick Orin Bartlett
Master Lambourne," said he, "I trust I have recompensed to your pleasure the time you have wasted on me.
From Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Drake would at once have recompensed him with several articles, but the only thing he would receive was a hat, which was floated off to him.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston
The trouble and distress these reflections, and others like them, cost him would more than have recompensed Dick, had he been hard-hearted enough to desire a vengeance.
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
