Overshoot
Overshoot , transitive verb
1.
To shoot over or beyond; to miss; as, to overshoot a mark; to overshoot the green in golf.
Not to overshoot his game.
2.
To go beyond an intended point or limit; as, to overshoot the runway in landing an airplane; to overshoot the endpoint in a titration.
2.
To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. — Hartle
3.
To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. — Cowper
Collocations (1)
To overshoot one's self , to venture too far; to assert too much.
Overshoot , intransitive verb
To fly beyond the mark. — Collier