'overkill' definitions:
Definition of 'overkill'
(from WordNet)
noun
The capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
noun
Any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
Synonyms of 'overkill'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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