Overboom
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To grow or progress too quickly, resulting in the crash of (something). transitive
"Its various resources are so vast that there is no possibility of overbooming the country. There is now a limitless demand for people of at least average intelligence and industry and with some money with which to get a fair start."
Example
More examples"Its various resources are so vast that there is no possibility of overbooming the country. There is now a limitless demand for people of at least average intelligence and industry and with some money with which to get a fair start."
Etymology
From over- + boom.
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