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Overkill

//ˈəʊ.vəˌkɪl//

Synonyms for "overkill" (95 found)

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Informal (11)

Noun, verb, slang(4 words)

charge drive ballyhoo blowing up

Name, noun, verb, slang(4 words)

strike push sally blitz

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

General use (84)

Adj, adv, noun(1 words)

Adj, noun(4 words)

offensive superlative breakthrough counteroffensive

Noun(40 words)

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Noun, verb(9 words)

assault overflow onset travesty counterattack heightening mugging huckstering touting

Adj, noun, verb(6 words)

burlesque excess caricature surfeit surplus stretching

Name, noun(1 words)

Adj, adv, det, noun(1 words)

Verb(4 words)

run against run at assailing puffing up

Name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, verb(1 words)

tall talk lightning attack banzai attack diversionary attack amphibious attack armed assault crippling attack dead set at descent on flank attack frontal attack gas attack head-on attack mass attack panzer warfare unprovoked assault

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