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Recompense vs Satisfy - What's the difference?

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Recompense is a related term of satisfy.


As verbs the difference between recompense and satisfy

is that recompense is while satisfy is to do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.

recompense

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
  • That which compensates for an injury.
    • He offered money as recompense''' for the damage, but what the injured party wanted as '''recompense was an apology.

    Synonyms

    * * (l) * restitution

    Verb

    (recompens)
  • To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
    • She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst
  • * Shakespeare
    • He cannot recompense me better.
  • To give compensation for an injury.
    • The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
  • To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
  • * Bible, Rom. xii. 17
    • Recompense to no man evil for evil.

    satisfy

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
    • I'm not satisfied with the quality of the food here.
  • * Milton
    • Death shall with us two / Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
  • To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
    • The complex numbers satisfy \exists x:x^2+1=0.
  • (dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
  • * Atterbury
    • The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying .
  • * 1851 ,
    • I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
  • To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
    • to satisfy a creditor
  • To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
    • to satisfy a claim or an execution

    Antonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * satisfaction * satisfactory * satisfice * satiate * satiation * satiety

    External links

    * * * English transitive verbs