Crossword clues for overcompensate
overcompensate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overcompensate \overcompensate\ v. to make excessive corrections for fear of making an error.
Syn: over-correct, compensate too much.
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.
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]
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.