overreach
5 synonyms for overreach, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To stretch out further than is normal or sensible.
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Etymology
The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- + reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over.
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