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overcompensating

vb. (present participle of overcompensate English)

Usage examples of "overcompensating".

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.