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compense

/kəmˈpɛns/

compense verb: to compensate.

Verb

compense (third-person singular simple present compenses, present participle compensing, simple past and past participle compensed)

  1. (obsolete) To compensate.
    • May 2 1623, Francis Bacon, letter to Mr. Tobie Matthew
      I hope, if any thing want in the speed of time, it will be compensed in the fruit of time, that all may sort to the best.

compense meaning in Bengali

compense in Bengali

ক্ষতিপূরণ দেওয়া

Forms of compense

third-person singular presentcompenses
present participlecompensing
past participlecompensed
pastcompensed

Origin of compense

From French compenser. See compensate.

Words that rhyme with compense

16 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about compense

What does compense mean?
Compense means to compensate.
What is compense in Bengali?
Compense in Bengali is ক্ষতিপূরণ দেওয়া. See Compense meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is compense?
Compense is a verb.
How do you pronounce compense?
Compense is pronounced /kəmˈpɛns/.
What is the past tense of compense?
The past tense of compense is compensed.

Words near compense in the dictionary

  1. compensatory
  2. compensatory lengthening
  3. compensatory lengthenings
  4. compensatory time
  5. compensatory times
  6. compense
  7. comper
  8. comperable
  9. Comperatore
  10. compere
  11. compered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compense (page history and authors); compense (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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