to overreach
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6.6
- verb
- /ˌoʊvərˈriːtʃ/
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excederse
- When the team overreaches, aiming for results beyond their capabilities, they risk disappointing their supporters.
And they start off with good intentions and they end up over overreaching as all of these movements do.
- And they start off with good intentions and they end up over overreaching as all of these movements do.
- Empires tend to fall because they are too big, and being too big, they tend to overreach.
- But then if you update your identity as visionary, revolutionary, future seer, you're going to overreach on the next thing almost certainly.
- So most people think they're overtrained are really not you're just probably non functionally overreached.
- Other people will milk it for all that it's worth and overreach in terms of how little they can do because they're not because they're sick or how much they expect others to do for them.
Examples
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The president of the Metropolitan Bank explained that men fail because they overreach their qualifications.
Academic text (1991) -
I still support private unions because if they overreach, like the UAW has, they lose jobs and lose power.
Blog text (24) -
The problem was that these champions tended to overreach themselves.
Academic text (1995) -
Fourth, the business community has already overreached, and many of its goals are beyond what they should be addressing.
Blog text (9) -
Now she had plainly overreached herself.
Fiction book (2001) -
The failure to ask this simple question explains why the cyber-politics experts greatly overreached in their predictions.
Academic text (2002) -
What happened to the Maya is one example of how many of the earliest settled societies overreached themselves.
Academic text (1990) -
Unions allowed corruption to set in, and many overreached in specifying overly restrictive work rules.
Blog text (20) -
If she tries to handle too many projects at once, she might overreach and fail to meet deadlines.
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He often overreaches by applying for jobs that require qualifications he does not possess.
Synonyms
201
4.2
Say or do something that is not acceptable and may hurt people
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4.4
To do something more than is needed
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6.3
To try to do more than you can handle and cause strain
3
7.2
Make too much effort with your body or mind so it is unhealthy
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5.5
To push someone or something beyond what they can manage
To go beyond safe limits and harm your success
To take on more work or risk than you can handle
Compounds
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6.2
Action by a government that goes too far and controls private life or business
How Ambitious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overreach comes from the parts over- meaning 'too much' and reach meaning 'to stretch or try to get something'. If you reach too far you can lose balance, so to overreach is to try more than you can do and risk failing.