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overreacho‧ver‧reach /ˌəʊvəˈriːtʃ $ ˌoʊ-/ verb VERB TABLEoverreach |
Present | I, you, we, they | overreach | | he, she, it | overreaches | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | overreached | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have overreached | | he, she, it | has overreached | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had overreached | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will overreach | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have overreached |
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Present | I | am overreaching | | he, she, it | is overreaching | | you, we, they | are overreaching | Past | I, he, she, it | was overreaching | | you, we, they | were overreaching | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been overreaching | | he, she, it | has been overreaching | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been overreaching | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be overreaching | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been overreaching |
- Critics say the commissioner overreached his authority.
- Did we overreach ourselves trying to build them?
- Such a strategy is dangerous since inviting Kasparov to overreach, may also invite him to launch a devastating attack.
- The Democrats have showed the same hasty overreaching in other ways.
- Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.
- They failed not because they were too timid but because they overreached.
- Unlike Sting, Dylan and Bowie, Waits has never looked like a rock star overreaching himself.
► overreach yourself- A new generation of bankers who were not around last time will be encouraging them to overreach themselves.
- A truly tragic figure, Johnson had overreached himself.
- Did we overreach ourselves trying to build them?
- He left, and waited for his opponents to overreach themselves, which they proceeded to do.
- One lesson Athens had learnt, not to overreach herself with warfare in two theatres.
- Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.
- Unlike Sting, Dylan and Bowie, Waits has never looked like a rock star overreaching himself.
overreach yourself to try to do more than you have the power, ability, or money to do SYN overstretch: The company overreached itself financially. |