overkill

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1. overkill - Noun

2. overkill - Verb

Meaning

any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal

the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required

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The new overkill is simply an extension of our nervous system into a total ecological service environment. Such a service environment can liquidate or terminate its beneficiaries as naturally as it sustains them. Marshall McLuhan

Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill. April Winchell

We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continuously targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing increase in overkill. Bernard Lown

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. Camille Paglia

The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers. Yvon Chouinard

A hint of what the band had recorded for the album came on 9 March 1979 when the band played " Overkill " on Top of the Pops to support the release of the single ahead of the Overkill album, which was released on 24 March. Source: Internet

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