overreached
past simple and past participle ofoverreach
overreach
verb
uk/ˌəʊ.vərˈiːtʃ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈriːtʃ/overreach yourself
tofailbytryingtoachieve,spend, or do more than you canmanage:
Companies that overreach themselvessoonfindthemselves indebt.
Failing and doing badly
- abjectly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls(something)up
- be on your beam endsidiom
- blow
- blow(someone/something)up
- bomb
- fall to piecesidiom
- fight a losing battleidiom
- flog
- flog a dead horseidiom
- flop
- founder
- rebound
- rot
- running on emptyidiom
- sclerotic
- smoke
- the rot sets inidiom
[T]
to do more thanyourauthorityallows:
Some U. N.officialschargedthat theinvestigatorshad overreachedtheirauthority.
It was awarningto the Floridacourtnot to overreachitspowers.
- Statehealthauthoritiesare overreachingtheirauthority.
- TheSupremeCourtruledthat the FDA had overreacheditsauthority.
- When acourtoverreachesitsboundsanddecidestolegislatefrom thebench, it'sprettyhard tooverturnthat.
Bad and wrong behaviour
- act out
- angel
- ASB
- astray
- atyourworstidiom
- beup to no goodidiom
- go off the railsidiom
- go round
- impossible
- in flagrante
- incorrigible
- raise hellidiom
- rakish
- rakishly
- rakishness
- rascally
- unworthy
- villainy
- while the cat's away, the mice will playidiom
- worst
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overreached
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The army frequentlyoverreacheditself.
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On this particular occasion, however, they haveoverreachedthemselves.
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Some trade union leaders had political ambitions thatoverreachedtheir duties as trade union leaders, and they were unable to distinguish between the two.
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I said that when criticism of a government rises to such a pitch that it makes the task of government impossible, criticism hasoverreacheditself.
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His reaction was to say that the court had in some wayoverreacheditself or gone wrong.
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At the time and for some while thereafter many people suspected that the industry hadoverreachedthemselves.
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His trial took place within the period of three months, so that the imprisonmentoverreachedthe time of his trial.
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It would be possible to take account of some moderate grant for food subsidies if that would prevent threshold agreements beingoverreached.
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The company obviouslyoverreacheditself and is now going into a very speedy retrenchment, selling off ships left right and centre.
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It is clear that the council hasoverreacheditself with these damaging proposals.
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The proposal is a good idea which hasoverreacheditself.
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It may be that the fall has alreadyoverreacheditself, so that it may only result in perpetuating sterling at an unduly low level.
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There need he only a slight decline in the present boom in house prices, and the consequences will be catastrophic for those who haveoverreachedthemselves.
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Between those times, he either built a match monopoly thatoverreachedor orchestrated one of the biggest pyramid schemes in history.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By 1878 the company employed 5,000 people but had greatlyoverreacheditself financially and failed amongst tough competition.
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- be on the go
- be-on-the-go
- be on the horns of a dilemma
- be-on-the-horns-of-a-dilemma
- be on the level
- be-on-the-level
- be on the line
- be-on-the-line
- be on the make
- be-on-the-make
- be on the mend
- be-on-the-mend
- be on the move
- be-on-the-move
- be-on-the-point-of
- be on the point of (doing) something
- be on the point of (doing) sth
- be-on-the-point-of-doing-sth
- be on the pull
- be-on-the-pull
- be on the rack
- be-on-the-rack
- be on the receiving end
- be-on-the-receiving-end
- be on the right lines