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squaring things

NOUN
reparation
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apology atonement indemnity payment redress remuneration renewal repayment restitution
STRONG
adjustment damages dues emolument expiation indemnification penance propitiation quittance recompense redemption repair reprisal requital retribution reward satisfaction settlement
WEAK
making good
Antonyms
STRONG
sympathy
WEAK
extortion penalty theft
NOUN
restitution
Synonyms
STRONGEST
indemnity payment rebate redress refund reimbursement reparation restoration
STRONG
amends dues indemnification quittance recompense remuneration reprisal requital return satisfaction
Antonyms
WEAK
dissatisfaction fee penalty taking

Example Sentences

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New Rochelle's Mayor Stanley W. Church, squaring things 139 years late, observed that the author of The Rights of Man had done more than any other man to "make this a free and independent nation."

From Time Magazine Archive

After squaring things at the hotel, and destroying what was dangerous in our baggage, we trekked for the Priok just as dusk was falling.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell

We'd like to do our little bit towards squaring things up.

From A Prince of Sinners by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

I shan't shirk; I'll take the mother into the library and break the ice, while you are squaring things with the young women.

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis

In the back of his mind rose a discomforting thought of an eventual "squaring things" with Lorry, but he pushed it aside.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine