cover#14 (v)
compensate#3 (v)
overcompensate (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 42
def make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
examples he is compensating for being a bad father
Frame - 11 Something ----s something
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Verb Group cover, insure, underwrite
Hypernym compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up
Derivationally related form overcompensate → overcompensation
Derivationally related form compensate → compensation
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Derivationally related form compensation → compensate
Derivationally related form overcompensation → overcompensate
Verb Group cover, insure, underwrite
Hyponym compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up

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