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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