overreach

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.

   “[...] I cannot forget what the poet Martial saith; "O quantum est subitis casibus ingenium!" signifying, that accident is many times more subtle than foresight, and overreacheth expectation; [...]”

2. fiil To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (UK, 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.”

3. fiil To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.

   “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.”

4. fiil 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.”

5. fiil 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?”

6. fiil To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
7. fiil 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.”

8. isim An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.

   “[T]hat's something that I think everyone in the White House understood was danger. We thought it was necessary, But I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, this is looking like potential overreach.”

9. isim Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action.

   “The hunter's [i.e., hunting horse's] legs should be washed with warm water, carefully examined for thorns, overreaches, &c., and the legs should be rubbed dry, and well hand rubbed, by which means a free circulation of the blood will be promoted.”