overshot in English

adjective
1
(of a waterwheel) turned by water falling onto it from an overhead channel.
On some estates, larger, more powerful mills with as many as three linked vertical overshot wheels were used.
2
denoting an upper jaw that projects beyond the lower jaw.
I've had an overshot jaw for most my life, and it hasn't bothered me.
verb
1
go past (a point) unintentionally, especially through traveling too fast or being unable to stop.
they overshot their intended destination

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1. The missile overshot its target. Sentencedict.com

2. So I've really overshot my budget here.

3. The plane overshot the runway and plunged into a ditch.

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6. The accident occurred when the plane overshot the runway of the airport serving the city of Mangalore in Karnataka state.

7. She suffered slight damage 3 May, when an enemy kamikaze suicide plane overshot the ship and crashed into the sea.

8. Overshot flakes travel all the way across Bifaces and remove some of the margin on the opposite side of the biface

9. He detonated two hand grenades, and the aircraft crashed at Phan Rang when it overshot the runway on an attempted landing.

10. The fiscal deficit target of 4.8% of GDP was overshot by 0.5 percentage points in 2013, with a similar outcome expected in 2014.

11. Since the fragment of a reverse overshot water-wheel was found 160 feet below any known adit or stope, it must have been part of a similar sequence at Dolaucothi to that in Spain.