What are some opposite words for overcompensate?
Antonyms for overcompensate
ˌoʊ vərˈkɒm pənˌseɪtover·com·pen·sate
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cover, compensate, overcompensateverb
make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
"he is compensating for being a bad father"
Synonyms:
brood, get over, embrace, right, plow, wrap up, enshroud, pay, make up, compensate, breed, recompense, encompass, overlay, continue, remunerate, even out, treat, hatch, incubate, report, track, extend, repair, cut across, cut through, deal, shroud, correct, counterbalance, underwrite, even up, address, spread over, hide, traverse, pass over, even off, comprehend, handle, over-correct, cover, cross, redress, get across, pay off, cover up, insure, indemnifyover-correct, overcompensateverb
make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
Synonyms:
cover, compensate, over-correct
How to use overcompensate in a sentence?
They'll grow so fast they may overcompensate, which actually puts them at risk for obesity, metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes later in life.
I think Trump is trying to overcompensate for the fact that Jeb was a successful pro-life, tax-cutting, small-government conservative governor, while he was a liberal New York socialite advocating for partial birth abortion, the biggest tax increase in American history and socialized health care.
Those are the kinds of conversations that lead us towards a society where men and women are free to experience a full range of emotions that's not likely to overcompensate for the lack of access with violence.
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