What is another word for overreach?
Synonyms for overreach
ˌoʊ vərˈritʃover·reach
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Princeton's WordNet
overreachverb
fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
Synonyms:
beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, circumventoutwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumventverb
beat through cleverness and wit
"I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
Synonyms:
baffle, exhaust, stupefy, elude, circumvent, stick, perplex, vanquish, get, mystify, outfox, fudge, flummox, beat, surround, outwit, tick, sidestep, hem in, nonplus, trounce, besiege, pulsate, drum, parry, beat up, bunk, dumbfound, tucker out, flap, duck, beat out, dodge, gravel, thump, evade, ticktack, put off, thrum, hedge, outmaneuver, ticktock, amaze, quiver, outmanoeuvre, pound, work over, puzzle, bewilder, crush, tucker, vex, beleaguer, wash up, skirt, outsmart, pose, scramble, shell
Editors Contribution
a bridge too far
striving beyond the ability to support the latest goal.
their latest goal of one million subscribers of overreach.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#77 | get | |
#2851 | beat | |
#3387 | stick | |
#3616 | shell | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#4785 | puzzle | |
#4807 | drum | |
#4910 | pound | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7123 | duck | |
#7393 | exhaust | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9747 | pose | |
#10852 | tick | |
#11033 | tucker | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#12398 | crush | |
#13072 | gravel | |
#14613 | flap | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#19709 | bunk | |
#21866 | parry | |
#24832 | scramble | |
#30103 | amaze | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35306 | evade | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#41588 | thump | |
#43658 | quiver | |
#54523 | vex | |
#57646 | vanquish | |
#64306 | elude | |
#77925 | outwit | |
#94911 | outsmart | |
#95211 | perplex | |
#112496 | mystify | |
#141616 | besiege | |
#144808 | trounce | |
#158476 | overreach | |
#177091 | pulsate | |
#211488 | thrum | |
#224053 | bewilder | |
#250539 | outmaneuver |
How to use overreach in a sentence?
The House version is going nowhere in the Senate, it's basically typical Democratic overreach to try to control everything in Washington. We have no interest in that.
Today, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office delivered a huge win for the people of St. Louis County and obtained a temporary restraining order, halting the enforcement of the mask mandate, this is an important, hard-fought victory, but our fight against unreasonable and unconstitutional government overreach continues.
I am alarmed by what appears to not only be multiple violations of both the State and Federal Constitutions, but also blatant government overreach by the school system, for anyone to conclude that a student's home is now school property because of connectivity through video conferencing is absurd... It is ludicrous for this All-American kid to be punished for taking responsible actions just as it is for his parents to be accused of neglect.
To the extent that there is a Republican president who tries to overreach his executive privilege, we will push back against it.
Today's victory is an important one, but the fight to reverse the President's unconstitutional overreach is not over, the President must respect the rule of law and fully obey the court's ruling.
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