overextend
About 0.05 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
- verb To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
- verb To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
Similar words
overstrain overexpand overstretch overreach overdo outgo exceed overstep go overboard overlengthen
Often followed by
the themselves yourself himself their itself your his ourselves myself
Word family
overextended overextending overextends overextension overextensions
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