- past tense form of compensate.
- past participle of compensate.
compensated
Example Sentences
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A combination of dehydration, rapid weight loss and malnutrition, complicated by untreated decompensated schizophrenia led to a fatal cardiac arrythmia, the report says.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
In the punitive, nontherapeutic environment of the jail, R.G. quickly decompensated.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023
He decompensated radically because he was very isolated out there on that farm.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2019
If approved it could become the first significant new treatment for acute decompensated heart failure patients in a generation.
From Forbes • Jan. 7, 2014
Its chief usefulness is in steadying the decompensated heart, improving the conduction of impulses, and increasing the tone of the cardiac muscle.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall