"overcancel" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "over- + cancel",
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  "etymology_text": "over- + cancel",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "overcancels",
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    },
    {
      "form": "overcancelling",
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    {
      "form": "overcanceling",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overcancelled",
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    {
      "form": "overcancelled",
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      "form": "overcanceled",
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      "form": "overcanceled",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1970, 1970, Amateur Radio - Volume 26, page 58",
          "text": "Note that there can still be feedback, however, if the gain is so high as to \"overcancel\" the input signal with the higher level output.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1995, The American philatelist - Volume 109, Issues 1-6, page 418",
          "text": "Don't overcancel our FDCs. Don't obliterate with felt-tipped markers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Akira Onuki, Kyozi Kawasaki, Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids",
          "text": "The self-diffusivities of a rod, in general, decrease with the concentration because of the rod entanglement and hydrodynamic interaction, but the excluded volume effect in the polarized scattering largely cancels (and sometimes overcancels) the decrease.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cancel too many or too forcefully."
      ],
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  "word": "overcancel"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + cancel",
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      "form": "overcancels",
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      "form": "overcancelling",
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      "form": "overcanceled",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1970, 1970, Amateur Radio - Volume 26, page 58",
          "text": "Note that there can still be feedback, however, if the gain is so high as to \"overcancel\" the input signal with the higher level output.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, Akira Onuki, Kyozi Kawasaki, Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids",
          "text": "The self-diffusivities of a rod, in general, decrease with the concentration because of the rod entanglement and hydrodynamic interaction, but the excluded volume effect in the polarized scattering largely cancels (and sometimes overcancels) the decrease.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cancel too many or too forcefully."
      ]
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  "word": "overcancel"
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