Overboom

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 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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