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What does overcompensate mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
  2. (transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
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The ill-prepared often overcompensate for these variations with too much clothing or through overexertion.
Resist the temptation to overcompensate for the extremes of one parent.
In particular, the public service must be clearly defined, entrusted and the public support may not overcompensate the service providers.
And don't overcompensate by eating excessively at your next meal.
Gladwell argues that they are successful because they had to overcompensate when they were young for their difficulty reading.
I think we designers are aware of this messiness, and overcompensate for it by attempting to obliterate every trace of it from our work.

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