Wiktionary:Word of the day/2020/April 29

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Word of the day
for April 29
overreach v
  1. (ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
    1. (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.
  2. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability.
  3. (ambitransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.
  4. (ambitransitive, rare) To deceive, to swindle.
  5. (intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
  6. (transitive, archaic) To get the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit.
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