Overcompensate Definition

ōvər-kŏmpən-sāt
overcompensated, overcompensates, overcompensating
verb
overcompensated, overcompensates, overcompensating
To engage in overcompensation.
American Heritage Medicine
To react to a real or imagined physical or psychological defect with a conscious or unconscious exaggerated drive to compensate for it.
Webster's New World
To give an excessive compensation to.
Webster's New World
To pay (someone) too much; compensate excessively.
American Heritage
To make more than the necessary allowance or adjustment.
Webster's New World
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