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  • verb Present participle of overshake.

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Examples

  • The action of overshaking a pair of dice in a cup in the mistaken belief that this will affect the eventual outcome in your favour and not irritate everyone else.

    The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983

  • These are real benefits, sources told msnbc. com, but they would never have caused the cancellation of the burn if the original overshaking hadn't occurred.

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  • NASA, gyrations, overshaking, resonant frequency, if this space stations a rockin ...

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  • These are real benefits, sources told msnbc. com, but they would never have caused the cancellation of the burn if the original overshaking hadn't occurred.

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