How to pronounce "overkill"

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and actually, surprisingly, on the small islands off of Siberia

and Alaska until about 3,000 years ago.

So Egyptians are building pyramids

and woollies are still living on islands.

And then they disappear.

Like 99 percent of all the animals that have once lived,

they go extinct, likely due to a warming climate

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

in Siberia and Alaska, and we can actually go up there

and actually take them out.

And the preservation is, again,

like those insects in [amber], phenomenal.

So you have teeth, bones with blood

which look like blood, you have hair,

and you have intact carcasses or heads

Phonetic Breakdown of "overkill"

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

OW1 V ER0 K IH2 L

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Definition of "overkill"

Noun

A destructive capacity that exceeds that needed to destroy an enemy; especially with nuclear weapons.
(by extension) An unnecessary excess of whatever is needed to achieve a goal.

Example: "24 hours of TV coverage of the US election verged on overkill."
An unnecessary excess of disposal because of too high criteria of inspection.

Antonyms: underkill

Verb

To destroy something with more (nuclear) force than is required.
To dispose of too many items because of too high criteria of inspection.

Antonyms: underkill
To do something excessive to achieve a goal.

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