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.
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verb.
shoot beyond or over (a target)
noun.
an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
verb.
aim too high