Crossword-Solution: OVERSHOOTS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Hits too high on the backboard 1 answer
Goes too far 4 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
Hint 2 anagram
NMOTIEO
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with OVERSHOOTS (5)

Right into them the 'Vanguard' leads, but with a sudden tack The Spaniards double swiftly on their trail; Now Jervis overshoots his mark, like some too eager pack, He will not overtake them, haste he e'er so greatly back, But Nelson and the 'Captain' will not fail.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 2008
Witherspoon overshoots, while my grandfather plants his lead in among Witherspoon's idees, an' that racontoor quits Kaintucky for the other world without a murmur.
Wolfville Days Alfred Henry Lewis 2003
Karasowski, in his eagerness to controvert Liszt, although not going quite this length, nevertheless overshoots the mark.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician Frederick Niecks 2004
The satire is so enormously exaggerated that it completely overshoots the mark, but perhaps this very exaggeration adds to the reader's merriment.
Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 2004
But such is deservedly the frequent fate of cunning, which, while it plots surprise and detection of others, commonly overshoots its mark, and ends in its own disgrace.
Cecilia, Volume 1 (of 3) Frances Burney 2004

Quotes with OVERSHOOTS (3)

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine. This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal -- the liberation of humanity from material cares -- and becomes an obsessive image hanging over the present. Between love and a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have made their choice and prefer the garbage d…
Tom McDonough The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Excerpt from page 113[On Malaysia's Prime Minster's anti-capitalism and anti-globalization policies in September 1997] "Ah, excuse me, Mahathir, but what planet are you living on? You talk about participating in globalization as if it were a choice you had. Globalization isn't a choice. It's a reality. There is just one global market today, and the only way you can grown at the speed your people want to grow is by tapping into the global stock and bond markets, by seeking out…
Thomas L. Friedman The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda Meir
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).