¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overcompensates
1. overcompensate [v] - See also: overcompensate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcompensates
Literary usage of Overcompensates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"... although by itself inactive as regards the process of secretion, either
abolishes the retarding power of saline water or overcompensates it. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"Yet, just as the definition type really conceals a lack of intelligence so the
excessive emotional expression conceals or overcompensates an emotional ..."
3. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"(3) If turned belly up in the water, the fish rights itself promptly; in doing
so, however, it sometimes overcompensates and turns almost or completely ..."
4. Social Security: Promise and Reality by Rita Ricardo-Campbell (1977)
"A large part of this future deficit is the result of a feature of the benefit
formula which overcompensates future beneficiaries for the effects of ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1903)
"Upon the fact just described, and upon the principle enunciated by Weigert that
repair overcompensates the injury, depends the preparation of antitoxic and ..."
6. Judging Human Character by Harry Levi Hollingworth (1922)
""Just as the definition type really conceals a lack of intelligence, so the
excessive emotional expression conceals or overcompensates an emotional ..."
7. The Electrical Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions by Arthur Amos Noyes (1907)
"This arises, of course, from a greatly decreased ionization, which overcompensates
the increased equivalent conductance of the ions. 65. ..."
8. The Electromotive Force of Iron Under Varying Conditions: And the Effect of by Theodore William Richards, Gustavus Edward Behr (1906)
"This arises, of course, from a greatly decreased ionization, which overcompensates
the increased equivalent conductance of the ions. 65. ..."
Other Resources:
