Joe Satriani

Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question. If you went to a Taylor Swift concert or a Jay-Z show, people would think, 'Oh, my God, I hope I don't get guitar overkill.' People come to our show for guitar, and there can never be enough.

American Musician

Camille Paglia

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

American Author

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Europe's budget plans are better designed: countries from France to Greece are raising retirement ages; others, from Britain to Germany, have created new organisations and rules to encourage fiscal probity. But Europe risks overkill.

British Journalist

Pavel Nedved

In no other country is football lived like it is in Italy, almost to the point of overkill. There is too much football on TV and in the papers, there is always talk about football during the week.

Czechoslovakian Footballer

Tom Jones

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.

Welsh Musician

Jaco Pastorius

Joseph Zawinul does overkill, and his technological overkill sucks, but there's no friction between us; I just say, 'Look,' and that's it. Do you have any idea how much music I learned from him?

Gore Vidal

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

American Novelist

Behati Prinsloo

It's overkill when you put too much fragrance on. It's the worst. Not sexy, and it makes me want to puke. I'm nauseous. Know what I mean? Your game's off.

Model

April Winchell

Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

American Actress

Often used figuratively to suggest excessive actions or measures in everyday situations.

Figurative Use

Implies criticism; the action is more extreme than necessary and possibly wasteful.

Negative Connotation

What’s considered overkill in one context might be normal in another; based on personal judgement.

Subjective Perception

Used in ecology to stress the negative impact of human actions on wildlife populations.

Conservation Context

Relevant in conversations about sustainable practices and environmental ethics.

Sustainability Discussion

Useful for explaining the cause of biodiversity loss or endangered species situations.

Cause and Effect

In a military context, it emphasizes the overwhelming scale of destructive force.

Military Jargon

Highlights the potential overestimation of threats leading to disproportionate responses.

Perceived Threat

Recognized technical term in defense and arms control dialogues.

Technical Term

 and fast-encroaching dense forests that are migrating north, and also, as the late, great Paul Martin once put it, probably Pleistocene overkill, so the large game hunters that took them down. Fortunately, we find millions of their remains strewn across the permafrost buried deep

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 all fire rated and isolate every man trap from the center core of the facility this place is designed with incredible strength in the walls the steel all the concrete it just overkill and this is the core of the building

Overkill