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overshoot

 verb
     
Related topics: Motor Vehicles
o‧ver‧shoot past tense and past participle overshot [intransitive and transitive]
1TTC to accidentally go a little further than you intended:
The plane overshot the runway and plunged into a ditch.
2 to spend more money than you had intended:
The school has overshot its cash limit.
—overshoot noun [countable]
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