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UK
/ˌəʊvəɹɛkstˈɛnd/
]
[ US /ˌoʊvɝɪkˈstɛnd/ ]
[ US /ˌoʊvɝɪkˈstɛnd/ ]
VERB
-
strain excessively
He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment
How To Use overextend In A Sentence
- There should be a mark showing the safe limit for the height of the seat - go beyond that, and it could be dangerous because the seat is overextended and so not very strong.
- Today, the state is likely to be seen as the lesser of privacy-invading evils, and even as a source of protection for our privacy, rather than as an entity that should not be allowed to overextend its reach into our private lives.
- Just don't be tempted to overextend yourself. The Sun
- But at times I found the exposition a bit overextended and reiterative and the family clashes underdramatized.
- Problems arise because drug names sound alike, prescriptions are illegible and pharmacists are overextended.
- I think our credit has been overextended to diversify.
- If your staff is overworked or overextended, it will inevitably show in their attitudes toward customers.
- You don't have to overextend yourself. Times, Sunday Times
- In the new version, the banker is a Wall Street CEO He overextends mortgages, he loses the bank, and when things go under, he uses his get-out-of-jail-for-free card.
- Her shoulders were overextended, which could cause brachial nerve damage.