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What does overcompensated mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of overcompensate
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When the driver of the Chevy cut back to the right, he overcompensated and lost control of his vehicle.
Everybody is going to realize they overcompensated, their inventories are lean, they don't have enough product, and it'll go back and do a pretty sharp snap-back.
The fact that the economy is stuck in neutral and that good jobs are hard to find makes the overcompensated especially tempting targets for TV voyeurs.
He wept in court as he recalled the horrific moment its driver overcompensated trying to correct his steering, ending up in his path with no time for him to react.
There may have been feelings too painful to probe, feelings for which he overcompensated by an excess of not entirely convincing sardonic mockery.
Because I knew this was a weakness of mine, I overcompensated by buying more science kits and books than one family could use in a couple of lifetimes.

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