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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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