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Overshoot v. t. (past & past part. overshot; pres. part. overshooting)

To shoot over or beyond; to miss; as, to overshoot a mark; to overshoot the green in golf. "Not to overshoot his game."

Hence: To go beyond an intended point or limit; as, to overshoot the runway in landing an airplane; to overshoot the endpoint in a titration.

To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.

To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth.

To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.

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Etymology of 'Overshoot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overshoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... thou hast on foot the purblind hare, Mark the poor wretch; to overshoot his troubles, How he outruns the wind, and with what care, He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles; The many musits through the which he goes Are like a labyrinth ...

— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge

... turn out so atrocious, that I half repent me of having undertaken to record thy memoirs; yet such monsters ought to be exhibited to public view, that mankind may be upon their guard against imposture; that the world may see how fraud is apt to overshoot itself; and that, as virtue, though it may suffer for a while, will triumph in the end; so iniquity, though it may prosper for a season, will at last be overtaken by that punishment and disgrace which ...

— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett

Words linked to "Overshoot" : aim, undershoot, shoot for, shoot, draw a bead on, aspire, wave-off, blast, direct, train, overrun, take