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.

• 🇨🇳动词，指在试图纠正错误时进行过度或不必要的调整，结果往往造成新的错误。

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.

   🇨🇳过度纠正

   同义词: overcompensateoverdooverreactovershoot

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