Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To expand or disperse beyond a safe or reasonable limit.
- transitive verb To obligate (oneself) beyond a limit, especially a financial one.
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- verb To
expand orextend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb strain excessively
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Examples
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"I tend to be kind of overextend myself sometimes, and I overcommit, so I committed to a few things that were probably too early," she said in an interview following rehearsal for a Toronto show.
News1130.com 2009
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This is why those who give past where they should, such as codependents, often get burned out; and why some caregivers suffer too, as they overextend themselves.
The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011
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Keep your wrist stiff and cast with your forearm taking care to not overextend beyond 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock until you lay down the cast for the presentation.
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Keep your wrist stiff and cast with your forearm taking care to not overextend beyond 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock until you lay down the cast for the presentation.
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Yet it is this kind of spontaneous activism that prompted the ragtag revolutionary fighters to overextend their lines with an unprepared push into the oil town of Ras Lanuf two weeks ago, prompting Col.
Libya's Rebels Embrace West Yaroslav Trofimov 2011
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Most empires collapsed when they tried to overextend militarily.
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Don't overextend yourself, but raise your hand when a manager asks for help.
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Outside of that, it has been one sob story after another for illegal that have destroyed this city, the diversity that plagues it, people who made the choice to overextend themselves and now have financial problems, and support for every Government expansion program that has come along.
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Don't overextend yourself, but raise your hand when a manager asks for help.
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This is why those who give past where they should, such as codependents, often get burned out; and why some caregivers suffer too, as they overextend themselves.
The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011
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