Damage
Damage verb - To reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of.
Make up for is an antonym for damage.
Make up for
Make up for verb - To balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective.
Both terms in one sentence
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However, they make up for this by doing a horrific amount of raw damage, and often dealing at least some damage even on a non-penetrating hit.
Source: Unskilled, but Strong -
Most of the time, he'll slap his ribbons around for 1/10th of the damage of a normal guest, but he has rare attacks that can do almost seven times normal damage to make up for that.
Source: Video Game / AdventureQuest - Having your Hero Insurance up to date helps; alternately the act of heroism is great enough to make up for the collateral damage.
Source: Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving
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Make up for and Damage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/damage/make_up_for
Damage & Make up for. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/damage/make_up_for>.
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