All overcompensate synonyms

verb overcompensate

• overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
• overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
• pay back — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
• atone — If you atone for something that you have done, you do something to show that you are sorry you did it.
• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
• comp — Comp is short for compensation.
• compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
• counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
• counterpoise — a force, influence, etc, that counterbalances another
• countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
• equalize — Make the same in quantity, size, or degree throughout a place or group.
• equalise — (UK) Alternative form of equalize.
• expiate — Atone for (guilt or sin).
• fix — to repair; mend.
• grease — the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
• indemnify — to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred, etc.
• offset — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
• pay — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
• propitiate — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
• reciprocate — to give, feel, etc., in return.
• recoup — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
• recover — to cover again or anew.
• redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
• reimburse — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
• remunerate — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
• repay — to pay back or refund, as money.
• requite — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
• retaliate — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
• retrieve — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
• return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
• reward — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
• satisfy — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
• square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
• ante up — If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
• cough up — If you cough up an amount of money, you pay or spend that amount, usually when you would prefer not to.
• make amends — reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
• make good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
• pay for — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
• put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• spring for — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
• take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.