Verb

(compensat)

To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.

It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.

(ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally]] or ([[metaphor, metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.

His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.

To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.

* Francis Bacon

The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.

* Prior

The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.

To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.

To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.

Verb

To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.

:to overcome enemies in battle

*Spenser

*:This wretched woman overcome / Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.

*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:

*:By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls.

(obsolete) To win (a battle).

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*:Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille

To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.

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(usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.

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To come or pass over; to spread over.

*Shakespeare

*:And overcome us like a summer's cloud.

To overflow; to surcharge.

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