(ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
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(ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
Writhing under his deficiency of means, he [William Hazlitt] struggled to supersede practice, overreach time, and bound at once to the conclusion.
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“ICE is part of the post-9/11 government overreach that should all be abolished.”
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(ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
[...] I cannot forget what the poet Martial saith; "O quantum est subitis casibus ingenium!" signifying, that accident is many times more subtle than foresight, and overreacheth expectation; [...]
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(ambitransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.
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“Every article like this, which doesn’t begin with a reference to his absence of training and his general ridiculous overreach, will someday end up in a “How did they not see what was happening?” history book. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...”
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