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OVERACHIEVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overachieve ... he / she / it overachieves
Past simple: overachieved
Past participle: overachieved
-ing form: overachieving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected
Example:
His daughter always overachieves
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "overachieve" is one way to...):
do; perform (get (something) done)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
overachievement (better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests))
