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overcompensate
transitive verb overcompensated, overcompensating
to give an excessive compensation to
intransitive verb
- Psychol. to react to a real or imagined physical or psychological defect with a conscious or unconscious exaggerated drive to compensate for it
- to make more than the necessary allowance or adjustment
Related Forms:
- overcompensation noun
- overcompensatory adjective
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