overpursue
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overpursue (third-person singular simple present overpursues, present participle overpursuing, simple past and past participle overpursued)
- (transitive) To pursue too far.
- 2007 December 23, Thayer Evans, “Diminutive Tailback Is a Giant in Scoring”, in New York Times[1]:
- Sometimes running to the football, you're going to overpursue, and he may break it all the way out back out the back door.