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overboom

verb

Etymology

From over- + boom.

  1. borrowed from bommen
  2. borrowed from bummen
  3. prefixed as overboom — “over + boom”

Definitions

  1. To grow or progress too quickly, resulting in the crash of (something).

    • Its various resources are so vast that there is no possibility of overbooming the country. There is now a limitless demand for people of at least average intelligence and industry and with some money with which to get a fair start.
    • There is always a possibility that too much competition will result in overbooming the market, and result in a break, which will set things down for a time.
    • Are we in danger of overbooming the boom? There are good reasons to believe that we are making good progress toward depression-proofing the economy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA