overcompensating
present participle ofovercompensate
overcompensate
verb[I]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈkɑːm.pən.seɪt/totrytoo hard tocorrectaproblem,thereforecreatinga newproblem:
Chris is one of thosesmallmen who overcompensatefortheirlackofheightwithalargerthanlifepersonality.
Effort and expending energy
- assiduity
- assiduous
- assiduously
- assiduousness
- be running on emptyidiom
- burn
- elbow grease
- fight
- hamster wheel
- hard at itidiom
- heavy lifting
- heroically
- kill
- push
- putsomethingin/putsomethingintosomething
- rearguard action
- set/putyourmind tosomethingidiom
- shot
- slog
- slugger
Examplesofovercompensating
overcompensating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Perhapsovercompensatingfor the neglect of the past, historians moved to history "from the bottom up," and to the social histories of precisely those dis28.
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The rates of aid are aimed at offering reasonable reimbursement for loss of income and the cost to farmers of managing land, while notovercompensating.
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A less experienced driver would be prone toovercompensatingfor the slide and driving off the bend.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Density-dependent mortality can beovercompensating, undercompensating or exactly compensating.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While giving the album three out of five stars, the critic described the group asovercompensatinggreatly.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, findings in affective forecasting errors have prompted some to suggest that juries areovercompensatingvictims, since their forecasts overestimate the negative impact of damages on the victims' lives.
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