overreach
过度扩张,超出范围,逾越,超出预期
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Definitions
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- : to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- : to go beyond, as a thing aimed at or sought: an arrow that had overreached the target.
- : to stretch to excess, as by a straining effort: to overreach one's arm and strain a muscle.
- : to defeat by overdoing matters, often by excessive eagerness or cunning: In trying to promote disunity he had overreached himself.
- : to strain or exert to the point of exceeding the purpose.
- : to get the better of, especially by deceit or trickery; outwit: Every time you deal with them you wonder if they're overreaching you.
- : to overtake.
- : Obsolete. to overpower.
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- : to reach or extend over something.
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There are limits to what we can do and there were terrible consequences for overreaching those limits.
With the changes, consumers become more aware of which companies want access to their data, while Apple can claim it’s protecting users from overreaching companies.
There's more unity around the need to go after foreign extremists than domestic ones — and less danger of overreaching and provoking a backlash.
Both groups lasted significantly longer on the treadmill after the one-week taper, which tells us that they weren’t non-functionally overreached.
Sure enough, the runners classified as overreaching had a significantly higher proportion of fast-twitch fibers.
The danger of a potential Republican overreach or overreaction was clearly on the minds of people in both parties Wednesday.
This entire ordeal reeks of bureaucratic overreach being bandied about in the name of “let-us-save-the-children” politics.
Second is the sense of a deep invasion of privacy and government overreach in their lives.
But U.S. intelligence officials say the secret to defeating ISIS may be to wait for its overreach to catch up with it.
At a recent forum, Pompeo said that the president had engaged in “absolute overreach.”
It does not anywhere appear that Johann ever attempted to overreach him or lead him to financial injury.
Then said she, 'As to the enchantments and spells that shall overreach him, and as to the blade wherewith to shear him?'