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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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