compensate

Definition

verb

to give someone an amount of money or something else to pay for loss or damage
(of an organ)
to make good the failure of an organ by making another organ, or the undamaged parts of the same organ, function at a higher level

Example The heart has to beat more strongly to compensate for the narrowing of the arteries.
to emphasise a particular ability or personality characteristic in order to make the lack of another one seem less bad