What is another word for overreach?

Synonyms for overreach
ˌoʊ vərˈritʃover·reach

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  1. overreachverb

    fail by aiming too high or trying too hard

    Synonyms:
    beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, circumvent

  2. outwit, 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

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  1. a bridge too far

    striving beyond the ability to support the latest goal.

    their latest goal of one million subscribers of overreach.

    Submitted by anonymous on July 15, 2020  

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  1. overreachverb

    Synonyms:
    deceive, cheat, dupe, circumvent, defraud, swindle, cozen, bamboozle, gull, trick, victimize, diddle, chouse, take in, impose upon

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  1. overreachverb

    Synonyms:
    outwit, dupe, swindle, cheat

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How to use overreach in a sentence?

  1. Mitch McConnell:

    Today's Democrat Party seems willing to go to any extreme to protect the kind of executive overreach President Obama once described as 'not how our democracy functions' -- even to block Homeland Security funding to get its way.

  2. Edward H. Crane:

    Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

  3. Harley LeBon:

    And if there is a bona fide question of neglect in my household, then Protective Services should be notified. Anything less than that is government overreach.

  4. John Boehner:

    Our goal here is to fund the Department of Homeland Security. And our second goal is to stop the president's executive overreach.

  5. Stephen Weymouth:

    He feels hugely remorseful for everything that's happened — for the injuries and the deaths — but he never intended to cause harm to anybody, it seems to be a bit of an overreach.


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