compensate
verb (used with object)
to recompense for something.
were compensating
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past progressiveof compensate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Somehow, the study’s authors realized, the active tribespeople’s bodies were compensating, dialing back overall calorie burning, so that they avoided starvation as they stalked their food.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Maybe these players were compensating for the silence that they had just escaped.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2018
In Spain St. Teresa and the great mystical writers were compensating for the triviality and worse of the picaresque romances and the tales of chivalry.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
I knew I was wasting your time by letting you love me, and hampering your projects; but I thought there were compensating advantages.
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
And if the result was sometimes calamitous or pitiable, there were compensating gains; a matter-of-fact prosperity is not altogether preferable to enlistment in the forlorn hope of idealism.
From Medieval Europe by H. W. C. (Henry William Carless) Davis
