Recompense and Take

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Recompense noun - Payment to another for a loss or injury.

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Take is an antonym for recompense in topics: pay back, paid back.

Nearby Words: recompensed, recompensing

Take noun - Action or behavior that is done in return to other action or behavior.

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Recompense is an antonym for take.

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

Also part of Luke Rattigan's plan to take his group of genius students to another planet in recompense for selling Earth to the Sontarans - he's even drawn up a breeding schedule!

Source: Adam and Eve Plot
Thor: So you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights?

Source: Protectorate
In recompense, he promises to raise a new guard dog, and to take the dog's place himself until the new dog was ready, earning him the name by which he is known in legend: Cú Chulainn, or, in English "Chulainn's Hound".

Source: We Named the Monkey "Jack"

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