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Overextend

🔄 Synonyms of "Overextend"

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Word	Definition
overstrainnoun	(ambitransitive) To subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, abilities, or the imagination.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Overextend"

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Word	Definition
overstrainverb	(ambitransitive) To subject to an excessive demand on strength, resources, abilities, or the imagination.
overexpandverb	To expand to an excessive or unwise degree
overstretchnoun	The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.
overreachnoun	(also figuratively) An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.
overdoverb	(transitive) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.
outgonoun	(uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
exceedverb	(transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
overstepverb	(transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
go overboardverb	(intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.
overlengthenverb	(transitive) To lengthen too much.
overextrapolateverb	To extrapolate excessively.
go too farverb	(idiomatic) To exceed an unstated limit, especially of acceptable behaviour.
overbendnoun	An instance of overbending (bending too far).
overexaggerateverb	To exaggerate, to overstate excessively.
overshootnoun	(countable) The amount by which something goes too far.
overexertverb	To exert (oneself) to an excessive degree.
overfillnoun	An instance of overfilling.
overrunverb	(transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
overbroadenverb	(transitive) To make too broad.
overrangenoun	Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.