Break
Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.
Compensate is an antonym for break.
Compensate
Compensate verb - To provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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But that might have something to do with the fact that they're wearing silly wigs to compensate — two highway patrolmen break down laughing rather than arrest them, much to their leader's fury.
Source: Bald of Awesome - In order to compensate for its notorious uselessness, many newer games give it stealthy instant kills or encourage you to break stuff with it.
Source: Standard FPS Guns -
Like the Limit Break a summon will usually have some sort of restriction in order to compensate for its power.
Source: Summon Magic
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