Overcorrect

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To correct too sharply or too much

    "[…] Ms. Goodman, who was driving, overcorrected after passing a slow-moving vehicle."

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"[…] Ms. Goodman, who was driving, overcorrected after passing a slow-moving vehicle."

Etymology

From over- + correct.

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