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overcompensate
verb as in recompense
Strong matches
Example Sentences
George may have been overcompensating a bit for his extreme displeasure with the route this country took after the election of Ronald Reagan and who could blame him?
They don't seem to get that bullies are usually overcompensating.
Graterol says he thinks his shoulder discomfort, which he described as minor, was a result of overcompensating for his hip in his mechanics.
“You have to start somewhere, and sometimes you have to overcompensate,” Al-Lazeez said.
While it overcompensated in response to some prompts, in others it was “more cautious than we intended and refused to answer certain prompts entirely — wrongly interpreting some very anodyne prompts as sensitive.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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