OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3205

overshoot

/ˈəʊ.və.ʃuːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sobrecarga
The situation where the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
Population overshoot is therefore unlikely to yield to management. Rather, the usual suspects will enter the scene and do their thing: starvation, disease, […] violence […] [and] d…
With appropriate choice and action such uncontrolled decline could be avoided; overshoot could instead be resolved by a conscious effort to reduce humanity's demand on the planet.
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📚 verb • entry_id 3206

overshoot

/ˈəʊ.və.ʃuːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pasársele la mano
To shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something.
not to overshoot his game