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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

overkill
    n 1: the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons
         (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
    2: any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary
       to achieve its goal

Thesaurus Results for overkill:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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