Term: overkill: any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
Candidate hypernym: effort: use of physical or mental energy; hard work → 1
Candidate hypernym: spectrum: a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities → 0
Candidate hypernym: strontium: a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite → 0
Candidate hypernym: sound recording: a recording of acoustic signals → 0
Candidate hypernym: african mahogany: African tree having hard heavy odorless wood → 0
Candidate hypernym: photoelectric cell: a transducer used to detect and measure light and other radiations → 0
Candidate hypernym: black rat snake: large harmless shiny black North American snake → 0
Candidate hypernym: lumberjack: a short warm outer jacket → 0
Candidate hypernym: phase-out: the act or instance of a planned discontinuation → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus cyclamen: genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: universal: a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings → 0