to overcorrect
3
6.8
- verb
- /ˌoʊvərkəˈrɛkt/
:
corregir en exceso
- I saw her tire impressions in the dirt, the smear of rubber when she overcorrected, and a tire caught the pavement's edge.
- the driver overcorrected
- the market severely overcorrected
You know, recorrect but overcorrected, dude.
- You know, recorrect but overcorrected, dude.
- And and so for a while, I kind of overcorrected.
- We think we're doing better for a time to make up for lost time to overcorrect.
- And so, you know, everything, nothing was based on color or, or overcorrecting because of color.
Examples
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And so you try to overcorrect instead of overcorrecting.
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I might have, uh, overcorrected.
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I do tend to overcorrect, don't I?
Blog text (19) -
Sorry, I overcorrected.
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You're overcorrecting, Marge.
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In fact, Dad cunningly overcorrects his natural nearsightedness by erring on the side of magnification.
Fiction book (2002) -
When asked what caused the switch, I answer, facetiously, that people must have read our article, remembered it, tried to make a correction, but unintentionally overcorrected.
Blog text (5) -
When she suddenly awoke and tapped her brakes, she went into a skid, lost control of the car, left the pavement, and overcorrected.
Fiction book (1994) -
You can easily overcorrect your posture by trying too hard to sit up straight.
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If you overcorrect your spending habits, you might end up being too frugal and miss out on enjoying life.
Synonyms
22
6.7
Make up for a weakness by doing too much
1
6.7
To make too many changes and cause new mistakes
How Corrective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overcorrect is made from over- meaning 'too much' and correct meaning 'make right'. So to overcorrect is to try to fix something but go too far and create a new problem, just like when you overdo a change and make things worse.