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overkill definition

☆ over·kill (ō′vər kil′)

noun

  1. the capacity of a nation's nuclear weapon stockpile to kill many times the total population of any given nation
  2. much more of something than is necessary, appropriate, etc.; esp., an excess of effort in attempting to achieve some end

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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