overextend
Meanings
verb
- To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
- To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
- To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From over- + extend.
Derived words
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