Antonyms for overcompensate
ˌoʊ vərˈkɒm pənˌseɪt

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1. cover, compensate, overcompensate(verb)

   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, indemnify

2. over-correct, overcompensate(verb)

   make excessive corrections for fear of making an error

   Synonyms:
   cover, compensate, over-correct

How to use overcompensate in a sentence?

1. Tim Miller:

   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.

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