Overshoot

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  • intransitive verb. To shoot or pass over or beyond.
  • intransitive verb. To miss by or as if by shooting, hitting, or propelling something too far.
  • intransitive verb. To fly beyond or past; overrun.
  • intransitive verb. To go beyond; exceed.
  • intransitive verb. To shoot or go too far.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To fly beyond the mark.
  • transitive verb. To shoot over or beyond; to miss.
  • transitive verb. To go beyond an intended point or limit.
  • transitive verb. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
  • transitive verb. To exceed.
  • transitive verb. to venture too far; to assert too much.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The amount by which something goes too far.
  • noun. When the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
  • verb. To go too far.
  • verb. To shoot too far.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. shoot beyond or over (a target)
  • noun. an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
  • verb. aim too high