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verb

1. adjust for
- engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
• Syn:
compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off
• Derivationally related forms:
corrective (for: correct), counterbalance (for: counterbalance), compensation (for: compensate)
• Hypernyms:
balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise
• Hyponyms:
carry, cover, compensate, overcompensate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
• Syn:
square up, jog
• Hypernyms:
square
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something