| VERB | stative | overcompensate, cover, compensate | make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities |
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| social | overcompensate, over-correct | make excessive corrections for fear of making an error |
| Meaning | make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | cover, compensate | |
| Broader | compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up | Adjust for |
| Similar to | cover, insure, underwrite | protect by insurance |
| Nouns | overcompensation | (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite |
| Meaning | make excessive corrections for fear of making an error. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | over-correct | |
| Broader | right, compensate, redress, correct | make reparations or amends for |
| Spanish | compensar | |
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