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Definition of: overcompensate
(ō′vər·kom′pən·sāt) v. ·sat·ed, ·sat·ing v.i.
1. To make too great a compensation, as in balancing the arms of a scales.
2. Psychol. & Psychoanal. To engage in over-compensation.
—v.t.
3. To make too great a compensation for.
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