overextend
English
Verb
overextend (third-person singular simple present overextends, present participle overextending, simple past and past participle overextended)
- To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit
- (linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
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