Crossword-Solution: OVERREACH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overreach | v. t. | To reach above or beyond in any direction. |
| Overreach | v. t. | To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat. |
| Overreach | v. i. | To reach too far |
| Overreach | v. i. | To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses. |
| Overreach | v. i. | To sail on one tack farther than is necessary. |
| Overreach | v. i. | To cheat by cunning or deception. |
| Overreach | n. | The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “OVERREACH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | 1 answer |
| Possible strain cause | 1 answer |
| Go beyond one's capacity | 1 answer |
| Extend too far. | 1 answer |
| Extend oneself too far | 1 answer |
| Defeat oneself by being too ambitious | 1 answer |
| Go to excess | 2 answers |
| Try too hard | 4 answers |
| reach beyond | 10 answers |
| Overshoot | 11 answers |
| outreach | 11 answers |
| extend over | 15 answers |
| go beyond | 18 answers |
| outsmart | 19 answers |
| outwit | 30 answers |
| Excel | 31 answers |
| Entrap | 34 answers |
| Circumvent | 35 answers |
| gyp | 37 answers |
| diddle | 52 answers |
| Gull | 55 answers |
| Exceed | 59 answers |
| Have ___ | 75 answers |
| Cheat | 88 answers |
| Strain | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OVERREACH (5)
There are many varieties of sharp practitioners in this world, but I think the hardest of all to deal with are the men who overreach you under the disguise of inveterate good-humour.
For the sake of those dependent on him, a man might not choose, but must plunge into the foul fight--cheat, overreach, supplant, defraud, buy below worth and sell above, break down the business by which his neighbor fed his young ones, tempt men to buy what they ought not and to sell what they should not, grind his laborers, sweat his debtors, cozen his creditors.
Their word is not worth a rotten straw, yere hanner, and in every transaction which they have with people they try to cheat and overreach—ask my uncle Tourlough, who has had many dealings with them.
Tell me now, can you? I’m sure you would have as much pleasure as I in witnessing the conclusion of the fiend’s existence; he’ll be _your_ death unless you overreach him; and he’ll be _my_ ruin.
Under the regime of emulation the members of a modern industrial community are rivals, each of whom will best attain his individual and immediate advantage if, through an exceptional exemption from scruple, he is able serenely to overreach and injure his fellows when the chance offers.
Quotes with OVERREACH (3)
Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism, and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning. We lose elections and…
History repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. And the genome repeats itself, in part because history does. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome. And human history has, in turn, selected genomes that carry these impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires. This self-fulfilling circle of logic is responsible for some of the most magnificent and evocative qualities in our …
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1963–2016).