over-correct

A verb used to indicate the act of making an excessive or unnecessary adjustment in an attempt to correct a mistake, often resulting in a new error.

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé pour désigner l'action d'apporter une correction excessive ou inutile en tentant de remédier à une erreur, ce qui entraîne souvent une nouvelle erreur.

1. Excessive correction C1 formal

   To make too many adjustments or corrections, often out of fear of making a mistake, leading to an unintended result.

   • The driver over-corrected the steering and swerved off the road.
   • In an attempt to be fair, the teacher over-corrected the grading system.
   • He over-corrected his posture and ended up with back pain.

   🇫🇷Surcorriger

   Synonymes: overcompensateoverdooverreactovershoot

• over-corrected past participle
• over-corrected past simple
• over-correcting present participle
• over-corrects third person singular