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overshoot

overshoot is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle.
  2. 2.To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
  3. 3.To fly beyond the mark. Collier.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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