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Overextend

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
  2. 2
    strain excessively wordnet
  3. 3
    To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension. transitive
  4. 4
    To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks. transitive

Etymology

From over- + extend.

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