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recompense

To recompense is to pay someone back or make amends to someone for some loss. (verb)

An example of recompense is when a shoplifter gives money to the person from whom he stole.

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See recompense in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See recompense in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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