0 present participle of overcompensate
1 to try too hard to correct a problem, therefore creating a new problem:
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.
The rates of aid are aimed at offering reasonable reimbursement for loss of income and the cost to farmers of managing land, while not overcompensating.
A less experienced driver would be prone to overcompensating for the slide and driving off the bend.
Density-dependent mortality can be overcompensating, undercompensating or exactly compensating.
While giving the album three out of five stars, the critic described the group as overcompensating greatly.
However, findings in affective forecasting errors have prompted some to suggest that juries are overcompensating victims, since their forecasts overestimate the negative impact of damages on the victims' lives.
