compensate
单词辨析：
指因使他人受到伤害、损失等而给予赔偿，也指对某事的不良影响进行弥补，常后接介词 for。
The lawyer said she should be compensated for the sufferings.
律师说，她应该为所遭受的痛苦得到赔偿。
Survivors were given $30,000 each to help compensate for their losses.
幸存者每人得到3万美元，作为对他们所受损失的补偿。
Her intelligence compensates for her lack of experience.
她的聪明才智弥补了她的经验不足。
指弥补过错或赎罪，常后接介词 for。
He felt he had atoned for his sins.
他觉得他已赎罪了。
He is anxious to atone for his neglect.
他急切地想弥补自己的疏忽之过。
主要指偿还所欠债务，也指对事情进行补救。
redeem a loan/mortgage
还清贷款/按揭贷款
The single redeeming feature of your behaviour is that you're not denying it.
你的行为的唯一可取之处就是你没有对此否认。
相关例句：
To ease financial difficulties, farmers could be compensated for their loss of subsidies.
为了缓解经济困难，农场主们损失的补贴会得到补偿。
I regret to Inform you that the Insurance company have decline to compensate you for the loss.
我很遗憾地通知您，保险公司拒绝了您的赔偿要求。
They will undertake to compensate you for the losses according to the risks insured.
他们将根据所投保的险别，对损失负责赔偿。
The company agreed to keep up high levels of output in order to compensate for supplies lost
这家公司同意保持高产量以弥补供货丢失带来的缺口。
The first party has violated the contract, so it is obliged to compensate the second party.
甲方违反了合同中规定的条款，必须对乙方进行赔偿。
The pluses more than compensated for the inconveniences involved in making the trip.
各种有利因素大大抵消了出行过程中的种种不便。