0 to try too hard to correct a problem, therefore creating a new problem:
1 to try too hard to produce a usual or correct state from one that is not usual, and therefore produce a new difficulty or lack of balance:
Perhaps overcompensating for the neglect of the past, historians moved to history "from the bottom up," and to the social histories of precisely those dis28.
Deviations in a few cases are overcompensated by the large amount of distance constraints.
With strong selection, the increase in disequilibrium towards the centre which generates extreme phenotypes could in principle overcompensate for the lower fitness of intermediate genotypes.
Consequently, the comic talents often overcompensate for their low esteem by hungering after completely humourless projects to prove their seriousness.
The increased supply of oxygenated blood overcompensates the demand of oxygen and leads to an increase in oxygen level as a response to increased cor tical activity.
To some uncertain extent, negligent net beneficiaries will be overcompensated, while net contributors, who have gained by foresight and hard work rather than by brute good luck, are overtaxed.
As if aware of an unfashionable lack of intellectual toughness, the editor has overcompensated by throwing in a couple of heavy philosophical pieces at the end.
In this case, the effect of a longer period of time in which individuals contribute to the pension system overcompensates the fall in the contribution rate.