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overcompensate

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When the spine isn’t properly aligned other parts of your body will overcompensate and raise fatigue and stress levels.

Now, Lange says, defenses may be overcompensating for that trend and sealing the 3-point line at the expense of their 2-point defense.

In the superhero realm, the trend has been to make villains into victims, whether it's Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker being bullied and ridiculed into pathology or “Wonder Woman 1984’s” Maxwell Lord violently overcompensating for the love he never had.

Swift’s previous albums, wrote Laura Snapes for the Guardian, had been exhausting, filled with “the sense that one of pop’s all-time greatest songwriters is overcompensating despite her clear talent.”

From Vox

As the energy factory breaks down, the authors explain, the cell sometimes tries to overcompensate, like pushing a damaged nuclear facility.

Gladwell argues that they are successful because they had to overcompensate when they were young for their difficulty reading.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overcompensate, such as: atone, balance, comp, compensate, counterbalance, and counterpoise.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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