overextend

Meaning

1. To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
2. (transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
3. (transitive) To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.

Synonyms

overstrain

overdo

overindulge

overreach

overexpand

Translations

وسّع أكثر من اللازم

überfordern

forzar

extralimitarse

sobreesforzarse

Etymology

From over- + extend.