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Reimburse

To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.

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Compensate 76% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Recompense 76% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

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Refund 76% connected

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

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Remunerate 76% connected

To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.

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Repay 76% connected

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Recoup 92% connected

Alt. of Recoupe

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Back adverb · 78% connection

To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left b…

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Equivalent noun · 78% connection

Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.

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Exhaust adjective · 78% connection

Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

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Expense noun · 78% connection

That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom t…

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Fenestration noun · 78% connection

surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis

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Homer noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry mea…

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Joule noun · 78% connection

A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy…

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Lost verb · 78% connection

Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

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Module noun · 78% connection

The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportion…

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Molar noun · 78% connection

Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars…

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Opisthodome noun · 78% connection

A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own,…

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Private adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; on…

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Purse noun · 78% connection

A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.

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Purseful noun · 78% connection

All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

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Purset noun · 78% connection

A purse or purse net.

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Reconcile verb · 78% connection

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at var…

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Recoupe verb · 78% connection

To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.

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Recover verb · 78% connection

To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.

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