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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
verb shoot beyond or over (a target)
verb aim too high
originFrom Middle English overshoten, oversheten (“to shoot beyond, shoot past, pour down from above”), perhaps continuing Old English ofersċēotan (“to shoot down”), equivalent to over- + shoot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- overshot 14
- hoovers 13
- overhot 13
- hoover 12
- hooves 12
- hovers 12
- shover 12
- shrove 12
- throve 12
- hoove 11
- hover 11
- hoves 11