overcompensated
past simple and past 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
Examplesofovercompensated
overcompensated
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Deviations in a few cases areovercompensatedby the large amount of distance constraints.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As if aware of an unfashionable lack of intellectual toughness, the editor hasovercompensatedby throwing in a couple of heavy philosophical pieces at the end.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Some larger metropolitan authorities will beovercompensatedand other authorities will be undercompensated, so the net cost should be little, if any.
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It means that if the chance event never happens, the plaintiff isovercompensated, but if it does happen he is under-compensated, sometimes to a very high degree.
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However, my group believes that in some instances the rapporteur hasovercompensatedfor this and extended the scope of the directive far beyond what was intended or, indeed, desired.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
There was, however, no such queue when the pound was weak and farmers wereovercompensatedto the tune of £100 million per year on average between 1992 and 1996.
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Maybe it was that he knew he was redundant, so heovercompensated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the corrective factors were disregarded and the individualovercompensated, then an inferiority complex would occur, fostering the danger of the individual becoming egocentric, power-hungry and aggressive or worse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Secondly, the insurer is entitled to recover from the insured up to the amount which the insurer has paid to the insured and by which the insured isovercompensated.
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- the stars align
- thimble
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- thin
- thin band
- thin client
- thin-client
- thin coat
- thin down
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- thine
- thin-end-of-the-wedge
- thin film
- thing
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- thing-is
- thing-of-the-past
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- thing-or-two
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- things-that-go-bump-in-the-night
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