Usually means: Excessive action beyond necessary limits.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. overkill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overkill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overkill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overkill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overkill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overkill, overkill: Wordnik
  7. overkill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overkill: Wiktionary
  9. overkill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overkill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overkill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overkill: Dictionary.com
  13. overkill (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overkill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. overkill: Rhymezone
  17. overkill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. overkill: Free Dictionary
  19. overkill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. overkill: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overkill (term), overkill: Medical dictionary

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  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

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  1. overkill: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overkill)

noun:  (literally, military) A destructive capacity that exceeds that needed to destroy an enemy; especially with nuclear weapons.
noun:  (literally) Destruction beyond what is necessary to kill, especially in murder.
noun:  (by extension) An unnecessary excess of whatever is needed to achieve a goal.
noun:  (manufacturing) An unnecessary excess of disposal because of too high criteria of inspection.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy something with more (nuclear) force than is required.
verb:  (manufacturing) To dispose of too many items because of too-high criteria of inspection.
verb:  To do something excessive to achieve a goal.

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