overreach definition

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verb-transitive:
- to attain or increase over or beyond.
- To miss by achieving too much or attempting excessively: overreach a goal.
- To beat (oneself) by going too far or by-doing or wanting to gain excessively.
- To get the much better of, especially by deceitful cleverness; outwit.
- To reach above or beyond in virtually any course.
- To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
- To conquer your very own purpose by trying to do way too much or by trying way too hard or with exorbitant eagerness; -- used reflexively; /
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verb-intransitive:
- to achieve or get past an acceptable limit.
- To overreach oneself.
- To outwit or cheat others.
- To hit leading part of a hind base from the back or side part of a forefoot or foreleg on a single region of the human body. Used of a horse.
- to attain past an acceptable limit.
- To strike the toe of hind foot from the heel or shoe for the forefoot; -- stated of ponies.
- To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
- To cheat by cunning or deception.
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noun:
- The act of striking the heel associated with the fore foot aided by the toe of this hind foot; -- said of horses.
- The act of expanding or achieving too much, overextension.
- The act of hitting the heel associated with fore foot using the toe of the hind base; -- stated of ponies.
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verb:
- to attain above or beyond in any course.
- To deceive, or have the much better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
- to achieve too far
- To strike the toe associated with the hind base from the heel or footwear of this forefoot; -- said of ponies.
- To sail using one tack further than is necessary.
- To cheat by cunning or deception.
- beat through cleverness and wit
- fail by aiming way too high or trying way too hard
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others:
- To overtake.
- To reach beyond in any direction; rise above; expand or go beyond.
- To deceive by cunning, artifice, or sagacity; cheat; outwit.
- To reach or stretch past an acceptable limit.
- Synonyms To dupe, circumvent, cozen, gull, bamboozle, consume.
- In the manège, to strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the fore foot: said of a horse.
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