Usually means: Exceeded limits or boundaries excessively.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word overreached:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. overreached: Merriam-Webster
  2. overreached: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overreached: Vocabulary.com
  4. overreached: Wordnik
  5. overreached: Wiktionary
  6. Overreached, overreached: Dictionary.com
  7. Overreached: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Overreached: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. overreached: FreeDictionary.org
  10. overreached: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overreached: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. overreached: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overreached: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. overreached: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overreach)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
verb:  (transitive, property law) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (British, 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.
verb:  (ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
verb:  (ambitransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.
verb:  (ambitransitive, now rare) To deceive, to swindle.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To get the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit.
noun:  (also figuratively) An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.
noun:  (equestrianism) Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action.
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