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overreaching

adj

Etymology

From overreach + -ing.

  1. inherited from 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”
  2. suffixed as overreaching — “overreach + -ing”

Definitions

  1. That overreaches (all senses).

  2. present participle and gerund of overreach

  3. The act or process of overreach (e.g. reaching beyond or extending past acceptable…

    The act or process of overreach (e.g. reaching beyond or extending past acceptable limits).

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Deception.

      • You cannot mention trade or business, for instance, but they will relate the frauds and overreachings by which such an one has acquired the wealth which he now possesses.
      • Any work of art/propaganda is surely permitted to lie. But Stone's overreachings in JFK are head-banging. How did he get this thing past the Script Dept.?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA