overstretch

Meanings

Verb

To stretch too far.
To stretch over something.

Noun

The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.

Origin

From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken ("to overstretch"), German überstrecken ("to overstretch").

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