overachiever

Variant of overachieve

overachieve definition

over·achieve (-ə c̸hēv′)

intransitive verb overachieved -·chieved′, overachieving -·chiev′·ing

  1. to do better in school studies than might be expected from scores on intelligence tests
  2. to drive oneself obsessively in trying to reach unreasonable goals

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