OVERACHIEVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overachieve mean? 

• OVERACHIEVE (verb)
  The verb OVERACHIEVE has 1 sense:

1. perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected

  Familiarity information: OVERACHIEVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERACHIEVE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

His daughter always overachieves

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))