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overkill

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1. n. the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required Source: wordnet
2. n. any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal Source: wordnet
3. n:100 n. the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required n. any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal Source: ecdict

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weapons achieve capability effort farther goal necessary nuclear obliterate required seems target

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