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Overextending

To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit.

📖 Definitions of "Overextending"

verb
  1. 1

    To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit.

  2. 2

    To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.

  3. 3

    To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.

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