overkill

noun

any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal

the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required

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exaggerationn overstatementn hyperbolen inordinacyadj exorbitancen hyperbolismn excessadj extremeadj superfluityn extravagancen

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