überstrapazieren — meaning in English
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English meaning
- overreach verb To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
Senses
überstrapazieren is used for these senses in English:
- overreach (ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
overreach — full definition
- verb To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
- verb To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (UK, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
- verb To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
- verb Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.