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Make excessive corrections
Answer for the clue "Make excessive corrections ", 14 letters:
overcompensate
Word definitions for overcompensate in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities; "he is compensating for being a bad father" [syn: cover , compensate ] make excessive corrections for fear of making an error [syn: over-correct ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
overcompensate \overcompensate\ v. to make excessive corrections for fear of making an error. Syn: over-correct, compensate too much.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Gill seemed to overcompensate and whispered hers so that the registrar and I could only just hear. ▪ Having been too lenient in the early 1990s, it seemed, the regulator was overcompensating. ▪ On the other hand do not overcompensate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another are 2 To provide excessive pay or reward for work performed.
Usage examples of overcompensate.
More than once, a soldier reached out to steady her, jerking her upright as she overcompensated for the weight slung about her chest and ankles.
After contaminating the last crime scene, Morrelli was now overcompensating, instructing his officers and deputies to create a wide perimeter.
It took him several tries, repeatedly overcompensating, but finally he managed to get himself reasonably stable again.
Ever since his inability to truth-read Kalliana, Tharion had insisted on taking regular booster doses, overcompensating for his one-time lapse of telepathic abilities.
He drove jerkily, lurching and overcompensating until he became accustomed to the controls.
He cast another stone, this time overcompensating and sending it far beyond the post.
Now, because of that realization, he was overcompensating and defending her to Colleen when Colleen was right.
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.
I guess we're overcompensating for this past shortcoming by our current overhyping of the InfoBahn-the I-way.
Nonetheless it had taken a fair while before he persuaded it to eliminate from the cylinder's sealed atmosphere all trace of the pheromones that beset the launch site, redolent of doubt about himself, and he must have overcompensated.