overboom

present singular third person overbooms · participle present overbooming · participle past overboomed · past overboomed

1. transitiveTo grow or progress too quickly, resulting in the crash of (something).

   Are we in danger of overbooming the boom? There are good reasons to believe that we are making good progress toward depression-proofing the economy.

   1956, Steel, volume 138, page 102

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   Its various resources are so vast that there is no possibility of overbooming the country. There is now a limitless demand for people of at least average intelligence and industry and with some money with which to get a fair start.

   1909, Malton-Colony: Sacramento Valley California, page 5

   There is always a possibility that too much competition will result in overbooming the market, and result in a break, which will set things down for a time.

   1921, Leather & Shoes, volume 62, page 75