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Went beyond, as a target
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overshot
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overshoot \O`ver*shoot"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overshot ; p. pr. & vb. n. Overshooting .] To shoot over or beyond; to miss; as, to overshoot a mark; to overshoot the green in golf. ``Not to overshoot his game.'' --South. Hence: To go beyond an ...
Usage examples of overshot.
It overshot me a little bit so I got to see the SAVE THE WHALES sticker on the rear bumper.
The ship slowed, reversing, the water boiling at her stern, but she overshot and had to back down.
Jeff Carroum, maneuvering to get his fixed guns on a Zero coming in ahead, overshot the point, and, when he finally dived, he had to come down on his back hi a more than vertical descent in order to get back on his target.
At Kanoya, Owen Young noticed the sparkle of exhaust low over the bay as a Tony took off, and swooped down so eagerly that he overshot and had to drop flaps and wheels to drop back for the burst that sent the enemy flaming into the water.
He headed for home, but a few miles out he was jumped by two Tonys, one of which missed, overshot, ran under and pulled up in front of him, so that he only had to squeeze his trigger to shoot it down.
Scott overshot his intended destination and went further into the past than he intended?
But he had also been wrong: Scott had not failed, had not overshot hundreds of years and brought the Borg to Earth.
Harry was beginning to wonder whether the authorities might have overshot the mark a bit in their effort to prevent panic.
I certainly found what I was looking for, but now I laugh sometimes and say maybe I overshot a little.
After speeding recklessly for twenty minutes through winding country roads lined with horse farms, commercial areas, and suburban housing tracts, Joel overshot Old Country Road, a main east-west thoroughfare.
She had spent some time finding them, because the raiders had moved slower than Matson anticipated and they had overshot the mark.
He perceived how far he had overshot his mark, and how, in seeking treacherously to hurt Ankarstrom, he had succeeded only in hurting himself.
I may have succeeded too well, and our advantage overshot into yet another error.
But her shaking fingers overshot the last turn and she had to dial it again.
But I soon perceived that I had kept by the naked truth too unvarnishedly, and thereby quite overshot my mark.