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  • verb Present participle of overkill.

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Examples

  • And this, right on top of the small little issue of "overkilling" his last assignment.

    Alone Gardner, Lisa 2005

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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) ..

    Return of the Model 70 2008

  • 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?

    CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2004 2004

  • Especially when they are overkilling for 4 UGL rounds, enabling them at spawn, and using martyrdom to boot?

    IGN Complete 2010

  • Of course maybe I was overkilling it because I kept doing the thing over and over.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • 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

  • 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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