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- verb Present participle of
overkill .
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Examples
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And this, right on top of the small little issue of "overkilling" his last assignment.
Alone Gardner, Lisa 2005
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Eternal Poison does differentiate itself in a few ways, primarily with the ability to capture Majin by "overkilling" them - hitting with an attack that does more damage than the Majin has health.
RPGamer 2009
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Armed with high-powered rifles and encouraged by the government and the army, hundreds of hide hunters combined with continued overkilling by Indians to perpetrate a slaughter of staggering proportions.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Armed with high-powered rifles and encouraged by the government and the army, hundreds of hide hunters combined with continued overkilling by Indians to perpetrate a slaughter of staggering proportions.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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I think that FS. net is overkilling the hype a little bit.
Sunday Discussion: Is There Too Much Hysterical Hype for The Dark Knight? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Overkill is not just a term on killing something, or overkilling something, it's also applied to things like $1724.00 for a Savage Bolt Gun ... (just kidding) ..
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They're overkilling their case by saying, you know, to a hair salon person, did Laci tell you that her husband was having an affair?
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Especially when they are overkilling for 4 UGL rounds, enabling them at spawn, and using martyrdom to boot?
IGN Complete 2010
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Of course maybe I was overkilling it because I kept doing the thing over and over.
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Really want to know as I changing my system soon and I am aiming for the new 6 core Athlon (due to my noobiness I tend to stick to overkilling as I am a overclocking idiot.)
www.hardwarezone.com.sg SNGRobo 2010
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Of the 1,425 victims, almost half were killed by “a sharp instrument”, sometimes with additional brutal violence (classed as an “overkilling”).
‘If I’m not in on Friday, I might be dead’: chilling facts about UK femicide Yvonne Roberts 2021
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