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Definition of Overcorrect
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcorrect
Literary usage of Overcorrect
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"It is also cut far enough over the side so that the spine may overcorrect laterally
still farther. On the opposite side, in front, a section of the jacket ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1901)
"If these means should fail to overcorrect the deformity, tenotomy of the tendo
Achillis, the peroneus longus, or the extensor longus digitorum, ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1902)
"This operation is combined with sufficient mechanical force to overcorrect the
deformity. The foot is now dressed, a plaster bandage is applied and ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Generally speaking, it varies from 0.5 to 1 centimeter and must not exceed this
amount, or later contraction is likely to overcorrect. ..."
5. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1900)
"Similarly (it seems to me) does Tolstoi overcorrect our social prejudices, when
he makes his love of the peasant so exclusive, and hardens his heart toward ..."
6. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1906)
"Similarly (it seems to me) does Tolstoi overcorrect our social prejudices, when
he makes his love of the peasant so exclusive, and hardens his heart toward ..."
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