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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 |
| Outgoing links | |
| 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 |
| Incoming links | |
| 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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