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DEFINITION: v. To push yourself so hard to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you undercut your own success. n. An impossibly high goal which practically guarantees failure.

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Destrive

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: de-STRIVE

Sentence: Trying to fit into her bikini caused her to destrive herself at the gym.

Etymology: destroy + strive

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Disastorious

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: di-sas-tor-ee-us

Sentence: Jonathan was going to be the world’s greatest novelist, but he could never get that first sentence right. So he would tell his friends his writing career was disastorious, hoping they would think it was something big... rather than something that was just very short.

Etymology: glorious + disaster

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COMMENTS:

Novel word! - Nosila, 2009-08-19: 12:09:00

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Overunchieving

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: O-ver-un-chi-ving

Sentence: As she had PMS, he tried being quiet and out of the way. Unfortunately his overunchieving mind made him trip over noisy furniture, tickle her feet, and generally fail everything he set out to do.

Etymology: overachieve - do better than expected unchieve - do worse when trying

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Peakawoe

Created by: mdschermer

Pronunciation: PEEK-a-woo

Sentence: She totally peekawoed when she spent 7 hours on the hors d'oeuvre alone, only to find all the guests had long gone by the time it was ready to be served.

Etymology: From "to peak": to bring to a maximum of development, value or intensity, and "woe": deep distress or misery. Made to sound like peek-a-boo for easy remembering.

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Paragonarrhea

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: pair-a-gone-a-ree-ah

Sentence: Sue would always paragonarrhea over her clothes, constantly tugging, smoothing, and brushing off imaginary lint specks; ultimately, this made her look like a grooming chimpanzee.

Etymology: paragon, gonarrhea

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COMMENTS:

Hilarious! - wordmeister, 2007-01-16: 10:10:00

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Shootfooter

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: shoot foot er

Sentence: daniel was a first class shootfooter, he was known to go 3 steps further than anyone else trying to do his best, then he would realize after he suffered 10 times more pain that anyone else because he'd shot himself in the foot.

Etymology: from shooting ones self in the foot trying to be clever.

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COMMENTS:

Hey, I think that this is what this game is all about -- shootfooting. It's kind of like playing chicken with yourself... - wordmeister, 2007-01-16: 10:28:00

erasmus I can agree with you there. even my job ( I fix computers) is the same. I'm daily trying to do myself out of a job by fixing things. - erasmus, 2007-01-17: 10:00:00

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Leadweed

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: leed/weed

Sentence: Becoming leadweed in a well-manicured garden wasn't such a tall order after all.

Etymology: lead + weed

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Succefocate

Created by: feichler

Pronunciation:

Sentence: you succefocate when you are obsessed and used to winning

Etymology:

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Autosabotage

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: auto - sa - bo - taj

Sentence: Bill tended to autosabotage himself by pushing himself so hard he would ultimately collapse well short of his goal.

Etymology: auto (self) + sabotage

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Underflog

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: uhn-der-flog

Sentence: Sometimes actors, musicians, politicians, or other celebrities (also including honor students) tend to underflog their own success by expecting too much of themselves.

Etymology: underdog + flog (as in, underdogging one's self, which leads to the flogging of one's career)

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