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overshooting


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overshoot  \O`ver*shoot"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Overshot};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Overshooting}.] 
  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 
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