DEFINITION: To push yourself so hard, to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you end up undercutting your own success.

Apexecuting

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: ay-PECKS-uh-cue-ting

Sentence: Tawanda wanted to make partner in her legal firm so badly that she set an impossible two-year goal to work 20 hour days and churn out 5,000 pages of legal briefs a week, which, as everyone knows, is a sure-fire recipe for apexecuting yourself.

Etymology: Apex (tippy top) + executing (both the capital punishment and "putting into motion" meanings)

Points: 1013

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