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Overkill

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Overkills
possessive
Overkill's
pluralpossessive
Overkills'