Overshoot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To shoot or pass over or beyond.
  • v. To miss by or as if by shooting, hitting, or propelling something too far.
  • v. To fly beyond or past; overrun: The plane overshot the runway.
  • v. To go beyond; exceed.
  • verb-intransitive. To shoot or go too far.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The amount by which something goes too far.
  • n. When the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
  • v. To go too far.
  • v. To shoot too far.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To shoot over or beyond; to miss.
  • v. To go beyond an intended point or limit.
  • v. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
  • v. To exceed.
  • verb-intransitive. To fly beyond the mark.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shoot over, as water on a wheel.
  • To shoot or go beyond; fly beyond; hence, to exceed; overstep.
  • To shoot over or beyond, as a mark.
  • To shoot over or too far; hence, to overstep due bounds in any respect.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. shoot beyond or over (a target)
  • n. an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
  • v. aim too high
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blast    shoot    miss    landing approach   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    overshot   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    exceed   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts