overreach

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvə(ˌ)ɹiːt͡ʃ/
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• General-American: /ˈoʊvə(ɹ)ˌɹit͡ʃ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəˈɹiːt͡ʃ/
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• General-American: /ˌoʊvə(ɹ)ˈɹit͡ʃ/
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• rhymes with -iːtʃ
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• CMU ARPABET: OW1 V ER0 R IY2 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- + reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over.

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Georgian: მიღწევა (miɣc̣eva) — act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or much — see also overextension
• German: Übergriffigkeit — act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or much — see also overextension
• German: Übergriff — act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or much — see also overextension
• Malagasy: mitsongo halokely — act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or much — see also overextension
• Spanish: extralimitación — act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or much — see also overextension
• Arabic: أَنَافَ (ʔanāfa) — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Arabic: غَلَا (ḡalā) — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Arabic: نَيَّفَ (nayyafa) — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Arabic: تَطَاوَلَ (taṭāwala) — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Bulgarian: надминавам (nadminavam) — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Bulgarian: надхвърлям (nadhvǎrljam) — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• German: überschreiten — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• German: über etwas hinausgehen — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Italian: oltrepassare — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Māori: whakakaiawe — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• Spanish: extralimitarse — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
• German: sich unangemessen verhalten hinsichtlich — to do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability
• German: überstrapazieren — to do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability
• German: überspannen — to do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability
• Spanish: pasarse de frenada — to do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability