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overreach

/oh-ver-reech/US // ˌoʊ vərˈritʃ //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈriːtʃ) //

过度扩张,超出范围,逾越,超出预期

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
    • : to go beyond, as a thing aimed at or sought: an arrow that had overreached the target.
    • : to stretch to excess, as by a straining effort: to overreach one's arm and strain a muscle.
    • : to defeat by overdoing matters, often by excessive eagerness or cunning: In trying to promote disunity he had overreached himself.
    • : to strain or exert to the point of exceeding the purpose.
    • : to get the better of, especially by deceit or trickery; outwit: Every time you deal with them you wonder if they're overreaching you.
    • : to overtake.
    • : Obsolete. to overpower.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reach or extend over something.
    • : to reach too far: In grabbing for the rope he overreached and fell.
    • : to cheat others.
    • : to strike, or strike and injure, the forefoot with the hind foot.
    • : Nautical. to sail on a tack longer than is desirable or was intended; overstand.

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Examples

  • There are limits to what we can do and there were terrible consequences for overreaching those limits.

  • With the changes, consumers become more aware of which companies want access to their data, while Apple can claim it’s protecting users from overreaching companies.

  • There's more unity around the need to go after foreign extremists than domestic ones — and less danger of overreaching and provoking a backlash.

  • Both groups lasted significantly longer on the treadmill after the one-week taper, which tells us that they weren’t non-functionally overreached.

  • Sure enough, the runners classified as overreaching had a significantly higher proportion of fast-twitch fibers.

  • The danger of a potential Republican overreach or overreaction was clearly on the minds of people in both parties Wednesday.

  • This entire ordeal reeks of bureaucratic overreach being bandied about in the name of “let-us-save-the-children” politics.

  • Second is the sense of a deep invasion of privacy and government overreach in their lives.

  • But U.S. intelligence officials say the secret to defeating ISIS may be to wait for its overreach to catch up with it.

  • At a recent forum, Pompeo said that the president had engaged in “absolute overreach.”

  • It does not anywhere appear that Johann ever attempted to overreach him or lead him to financial injury.

  • Then said she, 'As to the enchantments and spells that shall overreach him, and as to the blade wherewith to shear him?'

  • You are very wise, you have the wisdom of a devil, but even you can overreach yourself.

  • It is not an uncommon occurrence for a rascal to overreach himself.

  • Traveling expenses to Kansas, and the tracts, make the debtor column overreach the creditor some two thousand dollars.