to overstretch

Examples

• All

• If you continue to accept every new project, you will overstretch your resources.

• Some teams overstretch themselves and fail to deal with many aspects of the delivery that are new to them.

  Blog text (28)

• Don't overstretch yourself while doing your daily activities.

  Blog text (9)

• Buying used or pre-owned equipment can be a smart way to avoid overstretching your budget.

  Blog text (34)

• It means that parents, yes, we are overstretched, but we need to find time in our calendars.

  Megyn Kelly

• But isn't there a concomitant danger of Russia again overstretching itself with the same result as in Soviet times?

  Academic text (2015)

• For a considerable period, they appeared to be highly successful, but the demands of an increasingly complex society began to overstretch the ability of the agricultural base to support the large superstructure that had been erected.

  Academic text (1990)

• Very many seemingly wealthy people are overstretched "like butter spread over too much bread," as Bilbo put it in The Lord of the Rings.

  Blog text (6)

• The company decided to hire more staff to avoid overstretching their current employees' workload.

• She tends to overstretch herself by involving in too many activities at once.

Synonyms

S

to strain

vsto overstretch

87 4.2

To use a lot of effort to do something difficult

pushes beyond normal limits causing harm rather than simply exerting to capacity

O

to overdo

vsto overstretch

58 3.6

Do something too much, more than needed

pushes beyond normal limits causing strain rather than merely doing too much

O

to overextend

vsto overstretch

19 6.3

To try to do more than you can handle and cause strain

is broader, meaning to push physical or general capacity rather than take on tasks

O

to overwork

vsto overstretch

15 4.1

To make someone work too much so they become very tired or ill

pushes beyond normal limits in any area rather than only referring to work

O

to overreach

vsto overstretch

8 6.6

To try to do more than you can and fail

pushes beyond capacity causing strain rather than emphasizing likely failure

P

to push to the limit

vsto overstretch

7 5.1

Make a person or thing work as hard as possible until they cannot keep going

pushes beyond normal limits causing strain rather than simply testing capacity

O

to overexert

vsto overstretch

4 6.5

Make more effort than your body or mind can handle

pushes a person or thing past capacity rather than a self-driven effort

S

to stress

vsto overstretch

4 3.4

To make someone or something work near its limits

pushes beyond normal limits causing strain rather than only examining limits

O

to overexert oneself

vsto overstretch

3 7.2

Make too much effort with your body or mind so it is unhealthy

pushes beyond normal limits often by external force rather than personal effort

O

to overdrive

vsto overstretch

1 6.3

To make someone work too hard until they are tired

pushes beyond normal capacity causing strain rather than only intensifying activity

P

to push it to the limit

vsto overstretch

• Informal

1 7.2

Use all your energy and take big risks to test your skill

pushes beyond normal limits causing strain rather than just using all resources

O

to overstress

vsto overstretch

1 4.4

To put too much strain on the body or mind

pushes beyond normal limits causing strain rather than only creating pressure

O

to overstrain

vsto overstretch

6.5

To push yourself or something too hard so it breaks and you become very tired

pushes past capacity causing strain rather than stressing physical damage

Antonyms

L

to limit

∞ 2.1

To control how much or how often something happens

C

to contain

388 3.5

To keep something dangerous from spreading or getting worse

How Stretched

to overstretch

1 5.5

to overextend

19 6.3

to stretch

285 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology