| 释义 |
overcompensateo‧ver‧com‧pen‧sate /ˌəʊvəˈkɒmpənseɪt, -pen- $ ˌoʊvərˈkɑːm-/ verb [intransitive]  VERB TABLEovercompensate |
| Present | I, you, we, they | overcompensate | | he, she, it | overcompensates | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | overcompensated | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have overcompensated | | he, she, it | has overcompensated | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had overcompensated | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will overcompensate | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have overcompensated |
|
| Present | I | am overcompensating | | he, she, it | is overcompensating | | you, we, they | are overcompensating | | Past | I, he, she, it | was overcompensating | | you, we, they | were overcompensating | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been overcompensating | | he, she, it | has been overcompensating | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been overcompensating | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be overcompensating | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been overcompensating |
- Gill seemed to overcompensate and whispered hers so that the registrar and I could only just hear.
- Having been too lenient in the early 1990s, it seemed, the regulator was overcompensating.
- On the other hand do not overcompensate and regard the interviewer with a fixed stare.
- The doctor simply put it down to my body overcompensating for having twins.
- We end up overcompensating for our desires, eating more of the diet food than we should, looking for satisfaction.
to try to correct a weakness or mistake by doing too much of the opposite thingovercompensate for Zoe overcompensates for her shyness by talking a lot.—overcompensation /ˌəʊvəkɒmpənˈseɪʃən, -pen- $ ˌoʊvərkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable] |