Usually means: Exceed limits, causing strain, damage.
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  1. overstretch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overstretch: Merriam-Webster
  3. overstretch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overstretch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overstretch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overstretch: Vocabulary.com
  7. overstretch: Wordnik
  8. overstretch: Wiktionary
  9. overstretch: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. overstretch: Dictionary.com
  11. overstretch: Rhymezone
  12. overstretch: FreeDictionary.org
  13. overstretch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. overstretch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overstretch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overstretch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overstretch: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To stretch too far.
verb:  To stretch over something.
noun:  The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.

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