overshake

over- +‎ shake

overshake (third-person singular simple present overshakes, present participle overshaking, simple past overshook, past participle overshaken)

1. To shake too much.

   Always shake hands at a job interview, but try not to overshake.

2. (obsolete) To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse.
   • 1377, Chaucer, “v. 680”, in Parlement of Foules‎:

     Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast thes wintres wedres over-shake, And driven away the longe nyghtes blake!

• shake over