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compensate in English:

1. make up for


Please let me make up for my mistake. Let me help you.
I'll make up for forgetting our anniversary.
Sorry for everything I did to you. You can be sure that I’ll make up for all this.
I'm trying to make up for lost time.
and would make up for the ones I took.
You've done a lot of things wrong, but you can make up for that by cooking me dinner tonight.
make up for bad
This pill will make up for your vitamin deficiency.
We want to make up for all the time she wasted in her first year at secondary school.
At 45 Larry is behaving like a 16-year-old, trying to make up for his lost youth.
I have to make up for my absence at work yesterday.
I tried to make up for the lost time and do everything in just a couple of days. He tried to make up for his low social status by being rich.
How would you make up for forgetting a friend's birthday?
The view will definitely make up for the drawbacks
No amount of money can make up for our lost time/death of the child/for being such a ruthless parent.

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