Meaning of OVERKILL
| Pronunciation: | | 'owvur`kil
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- [n] any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
- [n] the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
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| | See Also: | | capability, capableness, effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail | |
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| | Definition: | | Overkill
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| | Related Terms: | | aggrandizement, aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, amplification, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, ballyhoo, banzai attack, big talk, blitz, blitzkrieg, blowing up, breakthrough, burlesque, caricature, charge, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, dilatation, dilation, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, flank attack, frontal attack, gas attack, grandiloquence, head-on attack, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, infiltration, inflation, inordinacy, lightning attack, lightning war, magnification, mass attack, megadeath, mugging, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overabundance, overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overmuch, overplus, overstatement, panzer warfare, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, push, run against, run at, rush, sally, sensationalism, shock tactics, sortie, stretching, strike, superfluity, superlative, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, tall talk, touting, travesty, unprovoked assault |
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