• v.
    ⦿make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
    lexical concept
  • he is compensating for being a bad father

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:compensate
  2. enl:cover
  3. enl:overcompensate
wn:interlingual indexili:i35026

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcompensatecoverovercompensate