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verb adjust for
verb make amends for; pay compensation for
verb make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
originBorrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.
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