overkill

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: o=ver=kill

OXFORD DICTIONARY

overkill, n. & v.
--n.
1 the amount by which destruction or the capacity for destruction exceeds what is necessary for victory or annihilation.
2 excess; excessive behaviour.
--v.tr. & intr. kill or destroy to a greater extent than necessary.

THESAURUS

overkill

aggrandizement, aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, amplification, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, ballyhoo, banzai attack, big talk, blitz, blitzkrieg, blowing up, breakthrough, burlesque, caricature, charge, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, dilatation, dilation, diversion, diversionary attack, drive, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, flank attack, frontal attack, gas attack, grandiloquence, head-on attack, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, infiltration, inflation, inordinacy, lightning attack, lightning war, magnification, mass attack, megadeath, mugging, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overabundance, overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overmuch, overplus, overstatement, panzer warfare, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, push, run against, run at, rush, sally, sensationalism, shock tactics, sortie, stretching, strike, superfluity, superlative, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, tall talk, touting, travesty, unprovoked assault