overreach
pronunciation
How to pronounce overreach in British English:
UK [ˌəʊvəˈri:tʃ]
How to pronounce overreach in American English:
US [ˌoʊvərˈritʃ]
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- Verb:
- fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
- beat through cleverness and wit
Word Origin
- overreach (v.)
- c. 1300, "to reach above or beyond" (transitive), from over- + reach (v.). Meaning "to extend over something, to cover it" is from c. 1400. Sense of "to reach beyond one's strength" is from 1560s. As a noun from 1550s. Related: Overreached; overreaching.
Example
- 1. Some will call this overreach .
- 2. From this perspective , the worrying parallel for the right is not 1992 but the liberal overreach of the 1960s .
- 3. The temptation to overreach is never far away .
- 4. Sooner or later republicans will have to correct their nativist overreach .
- 5. It is here that the book begins to overreach itself .