overshoot (v.) Old form(s): o're-shot , ore'shot, ouershot, ouer-shot
[miss a target by shooting too high] go astray in aim, wide of the mark
H5 III.vii.121[Orleans to Constable] 'Tis not the first time you were overshot [also: outshot, outdone]
JC III.ii.151[Antony to all, of Caesar's will] I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it
LLL I.i.140[Berowne to King] So study evermore is overshot
LLL IV.iii.158[Berowne to all, of their love being discovered] are you not [ashamed], / All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?
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