Tries too hard to make up for a weakness

Usage examples of overcompensates.

If the pilot tries to restore the plane to level flight, the plane overcompensates, and goes into a dive.

Baedecker gives it some right pedal, overcompensates, and causes the tail rotor to push the Huey around the opposite direction.

Poole, regretting, as so often in the past, that gushing loquacity with which he overcompensates a shyness that, left to itself, would reduce him almost to speechlessness.

Then nature overcompensates in repairing the broken material, and the fiber becomes stronger within forty-eight hours.