| OVERCORRECT | • overcorrect v. To correct too sharply or too much. • OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess. |
| HYPERCORRECT | • hypercorrect adj. (Grammar) Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage. • hypercorrect v. (Transitive) To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage. • hyper-correct adj. Alternative form of hypercorrect. |
| OVERCORRECTS | • overcorrects v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcorrect. • OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess. |
| OVERCORRECTED | • overcorrected v. Simple past tense and past participle of overcorrect. • OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess. |
| HYPERCORRECTLY | • hypercorrectly adv. In a hypercorrect manner. • HYPERCORRECT adv. refers to a linguistic construction or pronunciation produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct, such as "open widely" or "on behalf of my wife and I". |
| INTERCORRELATE | • intercorrelate v. (Intransitive, of multiple things) To correlate mutually. • INTERCORRELATE v. to correlate together. |
| OVERCORRECTING | • overcorrecting v. Present participle of overcorrect. • OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess. |
| OVERCORRECTION | • overcorrection n. The correction of something to an excessive degree. • OVERCORRECTION n. excessive correction. |
| HYPERCORRECTION | • hypercorrection n. (Linguistics) Nonstandard language use that results from the over-application of a perceived prescriptive rule. • hypercorrection n. (Linguistics) A nonstandard form so used. • HYPERCORRECTION n. a grammatical, usage or pronunciation mistake made by 'correcting' something that's right to begin with. |
| INTERCORRELATED | • intercorrelated v. Simple past tense and past participle of intercorrelate. • INTERCORRELATE v. to correlate together. |
| INTERCORRELATES | • intercorrelates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercorrelate. • INTERCORRELATE v. to correlate together. |
| OVERCORRECTIONS | • overcorrections n. Plural of overcorrection. • OVERCORRECTION n. excessive correction. |