overcorrect

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Word parts

over- + correct

Verb

Plain form
overcorrect

Third-person singular
overcorrects

Past tense
overcorrected

Past participle
overcorrected

Present participle
overcorrecting

  1. If you overcorrect, you do too much to fix a problem, so that you make another problem.
    The driver overcorrected and hit another car.
  • hypercorrect

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