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overreach
[ oh-ver-reech ]
verb (used with object)
- to reach or extend over or beyond:
The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- to go beyond, as a thing aimed at or sought:
an arrow that had overreached the target.
- to stretch to excess, as by a straining effort:
to overreach one's arm and strain a muscle.
- to defeat (oneself ) by overdoing matters, often by excessive eagerness or cunning:
In trying to promote disunity he had overreached himself.
- to strain or exert (oneself or itself ) to the point of exceeding the purpose.
- to get the better of, especially by deceit or trickery; outwit:
Every time you deal with them you wonder if they're overreaching you.
- to overtake.
- Obsolete. to overpower.
verb (used without object)
- to reach or extend over something.
- to reach too far:
In grabbing for the rope he overreached and fell.
- to cheat others.
- (of a running or walking horse) to strike, or strike and injure, the forefoot with the hind foot.
- Nautical. to sail on a tack longer than is desirable or was intended; overstand.
overreach
/ ˌəʊəˈːʃ /
verb
- tr to defeat or thwart (oneself) by attempting to do or gain too much
- tr to aim for but miss by going too far or attempting too much
- to get the better of (a person) by trickery
- tr to reach or extend beyond or over
- intr to reach or go too far
- intr (of a horse) to strike the back of a forefoot with the edge of the opposite hind foot
Other Word Forms
- v·İ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of overreach1
Example Sentences
Most of the rest of the world leaving their meetings with Bessent are reporting back an assumption that the US is edging away from what it cannot acknowledge was overreach.
The augmentation of that constitutional baseline by statute is not congressional overreach—rather, it is implementation and enforcement of that baseline.
There is, however, disagreement among conservatives about whether Trump is overreaching — intruding into a matter that should be left to more local authority.
"The consequences of the government's overreach will be severe and long-lasting," Harvard's president Alan M. Garber said in a letter to the university on Monday.
I hoped that during the next decade, the pendulum would swing back from 9/11 overreach and regain some semblance of equipoise.
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