Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To correct beyond what is needed, appropriate, or usual, especially when resulting in a mistake.
- intransitive verb To correct something to an excessive or unusual degree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In optics: To correct (a lens) so that the red rays come to a focus beyond the violet rays. See
correct , 5. - To change one defect of vision into its opposite by means of too powerful lenses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
correct too sharply or too much
Etymologies
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Examples
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"overcorrect" in the opposite direction, trying to make sure their children don't have the same experience.
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After a debt bubble bursts, people tend to overcorrect.
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Most, seeing trees or cliff rushing at them, will overcorrect, and when they do that the laws of physics, immutable and merciless, mandate a roll.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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She reminded him of a person speaking a foreign language, overcorrect and stiff.
The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009
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Most, seeing trees or cliff rushing at them, will overcorrect, and when they do that the laws of physics, immutable and merciless, mandate a roll.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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She reminded him of a person speaking a foreign language, overcorrect and stiff.
The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009
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When us humans come out of a suboptimal experience, we tend to overcorrect in the opposite direction in our next experience.
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But could it be more prudent to overcorrect, and to look to Iraq as minimally as possible?
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The big risk we face now is that banks are going to overcorrect and not take enough risk.
Art Levine: Geithner's New Plan: Keep Backing Risky Investments, Paying Banks NOT to Lend 2009
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So the filmmakers do occasionally succumb to the temptation to overcorrect.
Lives of Others 2007
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