overcompensate
1. make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- he is compensating for being a bad father
• Syn:
cover, compensate
• Derivationally related forms:
overcompensation, compensation (for: compensate)
• Hypernyms:
compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out,
even off, even up
• Verb Group:
cover, insure, underwrite
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
2. make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
• Syn:
over-correct
• Hypernyms:
right, compensate, redress, correct
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
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