overshifted

Verb

overshift (third-person singular simple present overshifts, present participle overshifting, simple past and past participle overshifted)

1. To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
   • In addition, overshifting to one side and undershifting to the other may be used as a defensive plan to meet personnel or field problems.1962, David M. Nelson, Football; Principles and Play, page 39
2. To overshoot when changing gears.
   • The objects of the invention are to automatically throw off the power and to apply the brake in such a manner that it will have no tendency to produce too sudden a stop or to overshift and release before the car has stopped.1905, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for January 1905
3. To move too great an amount or move something too far.
   • But I think there is this tendency to overshift the responsibility with this doctrine, and that is my genuine concern and why I could not agree to go along with it.1965, Maine Legislature, Legislative Record - Volume 2, page 2423
4. To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
   • Concavity of demand leads to undershifting and sufficient convexity to overshifting.1995, Gareth D. Myles, Public Economics, →ISBN, page 363
5. To replant or repot too soon or too often.
   • We presume it to be a plant requiring to be grown in peat earth, and :to have the pots in which it is, grown well and carefully drained of superfluous water; and we should further suppose it undesirable to overshift it, especially while young, and in an unestablished condition.1849, Annals of Horticulture - Volume 4, page 155

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