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overreach

[ oh-ver-reech ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to reach or extend over or beyond:

    The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.

  2. to go beyond, as a thing aimed at or sought:

    an arrow that had overreached the target.

  3. to stretch to excess, as by a straining effort:

    to overreach one's arm and strain a muscle.

  4. to defeat (oneself鈥) by overdoing matters, often by excessive eagerness or cunning:

    In trying to promote disunity he had overreached himself.

  5. to strain or exert (oneself or itself鈥) to the point of exceeding the purpose.
  6. to get the better of, especially by deceit or trickery; outwit:

    Every time you deal with them you wonder if they're overreaching you.

  7. to overtake.
  8. Obsolete. to overpower.


verb (used without object)

  1. to reach or extend over something.
  2. to reach too far:

    In grabbing for the rope he overreached and fell.

  3. to cheat others.
  4. (of a running or walking horse) to strike, or strike and injure, the forefoot with the hind foot.
  5. Nautical. to sail on a tack longer than is desirable or was intended; overstand.

overreach

/ 藢蓹蕣惫蓹藞谤颈藧迟蕛 /

verb

  1. tr to defeat or thwart (oneself) by attempting to do or gain too much
  2. tr to aim for but miss by going too far or attempting too much
  3. to get the better of (a person) by trickery
  4. tr to reach or extend beyond or over
  5. intr to reach or go too far
  6. intr (of a horse) to strike the back of a forefoot with the edge of the opposite hind foot
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of overreach1

First recorded in 1300鈥50; over- + reach ( def )
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Example Sentences

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The move, according to the suit, was prompted by reasons including 鈥渆ditorial overreach,鈥 鈥渄emands for unpaid labor,鈥 鈥渞acial discrimination鈥 and 鈥渓ack of support for Mr. Camacho鈥 after Feldstein Soto鈥檚 office sued him.

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鈥淯nfortunately, federal overreach has pushed many school leaders to prioritize the pursuit of racial parity in school discipline indicators 鈥 such as detentions, suspensions, and expulsions 鈥 over student safety,鈥 Project 2025 reads.

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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.

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The augmentation of that constitutional baseline by statute is not congressional overreach鈥攔ather, it is implementation and enforcement of that baseline.

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There is, however, disagreement among conservatives about whether Trump is overreaching 鈥 intruding into a matter that should be left to more local authority.

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