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Discover LudwigThe word 'overcompensate' is correct and commonly used in written English
It means to behave in an excessive or exaggerated manner in an attempt to make up for deficiencies or perceived shortcomings. Example: After being criticized for his lack of punctuality, John overcompensated by arriving an hour early to every meeting.
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overcompensate
verb
To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
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Of course, exercise is not actually bad for cells and the reason is that the body activates defence mechanisms which overcompensate for the stress the exercise creates, producing beneficial effects.
The danger, Mr Illarionov says, is that Mr Medvedev may try to overcompensate for his lack of a security background.If Mr Medvedev has liberal instincts, the best way to show them would be to run a free and fair presidential election.
Economies with a poor inflation record have thus tended to overcompensate investors for the risk they have taken.But the carry trade has also allowed some countries to get away with economic policies that they might never have dreamed of in the 1980s or early 1990s.
The relationship is, in fact, unexpected: though sunspots make the sun dimmer, the magnetic contortions that create them also create bright patches called "plage" or "faculae", which overcompensate.
The vendors say that their cameras are one reason why traffic deaths have been falling.On the other hand, drivers also sometimes overcompensate by accelerating when the light turns yellow, or slamming on the brakes so that the car behind goes into them.
We should therefore overcompensate at 18%, until we reach an equilibrium-world, where 13% of top civil servants are from ethnic minorities.
When confronted with something out of their comfort zone, like me and my boyfriend in full drag dancing down the road, Muslims - like all British people - get flustered and overcompensate by being overly polite — a bit like Hugh Grant.
"I think in Singapore to an extent and in Suzuka he was almost trying to overcompensate by focusing on staying out of trouble, which in the last race had the opposite effect".
Your brain senses the cute, but then tries to overcompensate for it!
Franco reportedly appeared deadpan and as if he really didn't want to be there; while Hathaway tried to overcompensate accordingly.
The Narrator's half-conscious knowledge that there are rules out there that you've got to respect leads him to overcompensate by respecting the wrong rules; that is, using formal diction where there ought to be vernacular idioms and vernacular idioms where there ought to be formal diction.
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