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Overstretch

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.
Verb
  1. 1
    To stretch too far.

    "The idle triumphes, maskes, lasciuious showes And prodigall gifts bestowed on Gaueston, Haue drawne thy treasure drie, and made thee weake, The murmuring commons ouerstretched hath."

  2. 2
    strain abnormally wordnet
  3. 3
    To stretch over something.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).

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