Compensate and Improve

Compensate

Compensate verb - To provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury.

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Improve and compensate are semantically related. in offset topic. In some cases you can use "Improve" instead a verb "Compensate".

Improve verb - To make better.

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Compensate and improve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Compensate" instead a verb "Improve".

power	compensate power	improve power
life	compensate life	improve life
people	compensate people	improve people
status	compensate status	improve status
Other words: relationship, time, tactics, damage, attacks, skills, techniques, powers, lives, stat, aspects.

Frostbite even lampshades it when training her, saying that he'll have to improve Sam's speed to compensate.

Source: Fanfic / Facing The Future Series
When the Tsuruga girls prepare to go to the individuals, Kaori is forbidden from practicing, under the reasoning that if she lost her beginner's luck, she could not possibly improve enough in that short time to compensate.

Source: Hard Work Hardly Works
Parodied in a sketch in A Bit of Fry and Laurie where Hugh Laurie reveals to Stephen Fry that his deafness has caused him to develop his eyesight, whilst his blindness has caused his hearing to improve to compensate.

Source: Disability Superpower

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