Crossword-Solution: OVERSHOT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Overshot | imp. & p. p. | of Overshoot |
| Overshot | a. | From Overshoot, v. t. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “OVERSHOT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Coups for a magazine photographer | 1 answer |
| Exceeded, as a target | 1 answer |
| Fired past the target | 1 answer |
| Missed long | 1 answer |
| Threw an errant pass | 1 answer |
| Threw too far | 1 answer |
| Went beyond the target. | 1 answer |
| Went beyond, as a target | 1 answer |
| Went past the mark | 1 answer |
| Went wide of the mark. | 1 answer |
| having an upper part projecting beyond the lower | 1 answer |
| Aimed too high? | 2 answers |
| Went past | 3 answers |
| Exceeded. | 5 answers |
| Went too far | 6 answers |
| Went beyond | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OVERSHOT (5)
The parallel was more severe, now that she put it to him, than she intended; it sounded savage; and she feared she had overshot her mark.
But I had so grossly overshot the mark that I suppose it took me two good miles of road and half an hour of elocution to persuade him I had been in earnest.
And I will be the man, cousin,” continued his lordship, “will course the fox for you, and make him rue the day that ever he refused a composition too honourable for him, and proposed by me on the behalf of a kinsman.” There was something in all this that, as it were, overshot the mark.
When I ran I overshot it and was tugged back; when I walked my wrist was dislocated with the tugs forward.
For a while he managed very well; indeed, he was a model of moderation and prudence—something too much so for the tastes of our wild community; but, somehow, Lowborough had not the gift of moderation: if he stumbled a little to one side, he must go down before he could right himself: if he overshot the mark one night, the effects of it rendered him so miserable the next day that he must repeat the offence to mend it; and so on from day to day, till his clamorous conscience brought him to a stand.
Quotes with OVERSHOT (1)
Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a handful of images: a lover’s irreplaceable body, the roil and shimmer of the sea overshot with sunlight, a handful of cherries, the texture and weight of a word. The word that seems most apt is partake… We can say we partake of something but we may just as accurately say we take par…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).