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Aim too short
Answer for the clue "Aim too short ", 10 letters:
undershoot
Word definitions for undershoot in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To shoot not far enough or not well enough.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "to shoot too low," from under + shoot (v.). In reference to aircraft or pilots, recorded from 1918. Undershot as a type of water wheel is recorded from c.1600.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fall short of (the runway) in a landing; "The plane undershot the runway" shoot short of or below (a target) [ant: overshoot ] [also: undershot ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undershoot \Un`der*shoot"\, v. t. To shoot short of (a mark).
Usage examples of undershoot.
Flying by the seat of his pants as he was, he could overshoot, undershoot or drive right or left of it.
If you undershoot, every morsel of flesh shall be stripped from me as I fall through the hedges.
Alexei said that usually, you try to undershoot the target and bounce the rest of the way to your final destination.
In undershoot position the gates are rotated round until water begins to pass between their lower edges and the sills.
Rotating the gates into the undershoot position also adds around a third of a metre to their overall height, thus increasing the protection factor.
Her heart sank, which caused her to drop and almost undershoot her landing.
Amalfi had considerable faith in the City Fathers, but the terrifying flight of stars past his head could not fail to make him worry about overshooting E-Day, or undershooting it, however accurate the calculations seemed to be.
An undershot jaw exposed prominent white teeth that gave him a shark-like look when he smiled.
A man with an undershot jaw in which prominent teeth gleamed with the mirthless grin of a shark.
She was staring at a grinning stranger whose undershot jaw exposed a row of jutting white teeth like the mouth of a shark.
Clyde recoiled instinctively as he saw the sharklike teeth jutting like fangs from the undershot jaw.
Chief Barlow, hunched forward, his undershot jaw clenched on a cigar stub, regarded Larry steadily with his beady, autocratic eyes.
His personal trainer was a bulky youth with an undershot jaw and sleepy eyes, and a habit of glancing sideways and rotating his shoulder forward each time he passed a mirror.
The jaw was undershot, the eyes pivoted individually, and the hands gripped a stocked weapon with a ten-liter pressure tank.
They were gaunt creatures seven feet tall, with bulging black eyes, beaked noses, small undershot mouths pursed as if for kissing.