overextend

Other forms: overextended; overextending; overextends

Definitions of overextend
  1. verb
    strain excessively
    “He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment”
    synonyms: overstrain
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    type of:
    extend, strain
    use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
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