Definitions for overreach
ˌoʊ vərˈritʃover·reach

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. overreachverb

   fail by aiming too high or trying too hard

2. outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumventverb

   beat through cleverness and wit

   "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Overreachverb

   To defeat one's own purpose by trying to do too much or by trying too hard or with excessive eagerness; -- used reflexively; as, the candidate overreached himself by trying to plant false rumors, which backfired/

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. overreachnoun

   The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

2. overreachnoun

   The act of extending or reaching too far, overextension.

3. overreachverb

   To reach above or beyond in any direction.

4. overreachverb

   To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.

5. overreachverb

   To reach too far

6. overreachverb

   To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.

7. overreachverb

   To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

8. overreachverb

   To cheat by cunning or deception.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Overreachverb

   Etymology: over and reach.

   1. To rise above.

   The mountains of Olympus, Atho and Atlas, over-reach and surmount all winds and clouds. Walter Raleigh.

   Sixteen hundred years after the earth was made, it was overflowed in a deluge of water in such excess, that the floods over-reached the tops of the highest mountains. Burnet.

   2. To deceive; to go beyond; to circumvent. A sagacious man is said to have a long reach.

   What more cruel than man, if he see himself able by fraud to over-reach, or by power to over-bear the laws whereunto he should be subject. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 2.

   I have laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that it wants matter to prevent so gross over-reaching. William Shakespeare.

   Shame to be overcome, or over-reach’d,
   Would utmost vigour raise, and rais’d unite. John Milton.

   A man who had been matchless held
   In cunning, over-reach’d where least he thought,
   To save his credit, and for very spight
   Still will be tempting him who foils him still. John Milton.

   There is no pleasanter encounter than a trial of skill betwixt sharpers to over-reach one another. Roger L'Estrange.

   Forbidding oppression, defrauding and over-reaching one another, perfidiousness and treachery. John Tillotson.

   Such a principle is ambition, or a desire of fame, by which many vicious men are over-reached, and engaged contrary to their natural inclinations in a glorious and laudable course of action. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 255.

   John had got an impression that Lewis was so deadly cunning a man, that he was afraid to venture himself alone with him; at last he took heart of grace; let him come up, quoth he, it is but sticking to my point, and he can never over-reach me. History of J. Bull.

2. To Overreachverb

   A horse is said to over-reach, when he brings his hinder feet too far forwards, and strikes his toes against his fore shoes. Farr. Dict.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Overreach

   ō-vėr-rēch′, v.t. to reach or extend beyond: to cheat or get the better of.—v.i. to strike the hindfoot against the forefoot, as a horse.

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1. • Fail
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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of overreach in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of overreach in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of overreach in a Sentence

1. Burch Elliott:

   Instead of wasting time and taxpayer dollars on political overreach, lawmakers need to support health care that meets the needs of Iowans and their unique circumstances. Thankfully, the court's decision protects access to safe and legal abortion for now, but the decision also underscores why it's crucial that our state constitution continues to protect the right to abortion — and that's why we must fight the proposed anti-abortion constitutional amendment that lawmakers are currently trying to push through at the capitol.

2. House Speaker John Boehner:

   The Constitution makes it pretty clear that the House has to do its work and the Senate has to do theirs. The House has acted to fund the department and to stop the President's overreach when it comes to immigration and his executive orders, it's their turn.

3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   Can everyday people come together and effectively organize against creeping overreach of one of the worlds biggest corporations ? Yes, they can.

4. Todd Russ:

   Oklahoma's at the point where we have decided we are drawing a line today and sidestepping the government’s overreach.

5. Mitch McConnell:

   Senate Democrats -- especially those who've voiced opposition to the President's executive overreach — should end their partisan filibuster of Department of Homeland Security funding.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=overreach
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=overreach
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Overreach
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=overreach
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=overreach