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Overshoot
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South.
2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle.
3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To fly beyond the mark. Collier.