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- verb transitive To
cut excessively.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Fishman suggests he'll treat even an NCAA title game like, well, just another game: The only thing that affects my directing is with this much equipment, you can overcut.
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The comeback continued apace with a 95 clearance to leave Higgins just 5-4 behind but he overcut a black in the next and Maguire made a match-winning 70.
Ronnie O'Sullivan considers retirement after defeat to Judd Trump 2011
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And unlike his recent environmental-advocacy pictures of overcut forests, Robert Adams 's "Sally, Weld County, Colo." 1984 captures a cute, shaggy white dog standing in the middle of an endless dirt road running through broad plains, with a single tree on the right and a few puffs of white cloud in the bright Western sky.
The Self and Others William Meyers 2011
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Just like I overcut the tee shot and some of the other shots.
USATODAY.com - Ogilvy grabs U.S. Open when Mickelson, Montgomerie stumble 2006
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I had to hit a big carving slice around the tree and overcut it, Mickelson said.
USATODAY.com - Ogilvy grabs U.S. Open when Mickelson, Montgomerie stumble 2006
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Rather than admit his failure in obtaining the necessary cut stones or brick required for the barracks, in late summer he had decided to overcut the oaks in the area.
Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005
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"I was trying to hit a nice high bleeder up there and overcut it," he said of his tee shot.
USATODAY.com - Woods trying to regain grip after opening with 70 2001
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We overcut the edges in order to see them clearly in profile (left).
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - The Elite Cemetery: Week 6 2002
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An undercut must first be made in the intended direction of fall, followed by an overcut made in the opposite side of the stem.
Chapter 9 1985
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But they harvest wisely, they are not wasteful and they never overcut.
Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981
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