English Dictionary

overreach

/ˌəʊvəˈɹiːt͡ʃ/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.

He tends to overreach his authority and make decisions without consulting others.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.

意味（2）

(transitive, property law) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (Britain, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.

[A]n equitable mortgage, by deposit of deeds to a person, bona fide, and without notice, will give him a preferable equity; and will overreach the vendor's equitable lien on the estate for any part of the purchase-money.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability.

The British Empire would not have endured so long had it not been for a discreet sense of moderation in its rulers, generation after generation. The coolness displayed towards the colonies by successive British Governments has at least prevented the empire-builders from overreaching themselves.

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.

Attinto, … Alſo when a horſe is tainted or hurt, or ouerreacheth one foote with another, and withal doth hurt a ſinew.

意味（5）

(transitive, intransitive, now rare) To deceive, to swindle.

Say, thou that by thy cunning overreachest thy brother in buying, selling, or bargaining, or deceivest the trust reposed in thee by thy friend, couldst thou brook to be in like sort cheated thyself?

意味（6）

(intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

Where a sail vessel close hauled and a steam vessel approach so as to involve risk of collision, the rule requiring the sail vessel to keep her course requires her to beat out her tack. … She is not required to tack short on signal from the steam vessel when there is danger in so doing, nor need she remain in stays or overreach longer than usual when such measures are not apparently necessary to avoid a collision.

意味（7）

(transitive, archaic) To get the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit.

Wee'll ouer-reach the grey-beard Gremio, / The narrow prying father Minola, / The quaint Muſician, amorous Litio, / All for my Maſters ſake Lucentio.