overextend (English, verb)
expansion: overextend (third-person singular simple present overextends, present participle overextending, simple past and past participle overextended)
Senses:
glosses: To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
tags: transitive
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: overextends
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overextending
tags: participle
present
form: overextended
tags: participle
past
form: overextended
tags: past