Overreach

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overreach \O`ver*reach"\, v. i.
     1. To reach too far; as:
        (a) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or
            shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.
        (b) (Naut.) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
            --Shak.


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     2. To cheat by cunning or deception.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overreach \O"ver*reach`\ ([=o]"v[~e]r*r[=e]ch`), n.
     The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of
     the hind foot; -- said of horses.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overreach \O`ver*reach"\ ([=o]`v[~e]r*r[=e]ch"), v. t. [imp. &
     p. p. {Overreached}, ({Overraught}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Overreaching}.]
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     1. To reach above or beyond in any direction.
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     2. To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning;
        to outwit; to cheat. --Shak.
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     3. To defeat one's own purpose by trying to do too much or by
        trying too hard or with excessive eagerness; -- used
        reflexively; as, the candidate overreached himself by
        trying to plant false rumors, which backfired/
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overreach
       v 1: fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
       2: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She
          outfoxed her competitors" [syn: {outwit}, {outsmart}, {outfox},
           {beat}, {circumvent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "overreach":
     aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, bamboozle, beat, beguile, betray,
     bilk, bluff, build up, burlesque, cajole, caricature,
     carry too far, cheat on, chouse, circumvent, conjure, cozen,
     deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do, double-cross,
     draw the longbow, dupe, elude, evade, exaggerate, exceed, flimflam,
     foil, forestall, frustrate, gammon, get around, get round,
     give the runaround, give the slip, go beyond, go one better,
     go to extremes, gull, gyp, have, hoax, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle,
     humbug, hyperbolize, juggle, lay it on, let down, magnify,
     make much of, mock, outfigure, outflank, outfox, outgeneral,
     outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit,
     overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overgo, overjump,
     overleap, overpass, overpraise, overreact, overrun, oversell,
     overshoot, overshoot the field, overshoot the mark, overspeak,
     overstate, overstep, overstress, overstride, pass, pass the buck,
     pigeon, pile it on, play one false, puff, put something over, snow,
     stonewall, stretch, stretch the truth, string along, superabound,
     surpass, take in, talk big, talk in superlatives, tout, transcend,
     travesty, trick, two-time, undo, victimize