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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Overreaching (0.01733 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: overreaching
overreaching
adj : revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the
heights;
“vaulting ambition” [syn:
vaulting]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Overreaching
Overreach
\O`ver*reach"\ ([=o]`v[~e]r*r[=e]ch"), v. t. [imp. &
p. p.
Overreached, (
Overraught, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.
Overreaching.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To reach above or beyond in any direction.
[1913 Webster]
2. To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning;
to outwit; to cheat. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
3. To defeat one's own purpose by trying to do too much or by
trying too hard or with excessive eagerness; -- used
reflexively; as, the candidate overreached himself by
trying to plant false rumors, which backfired/
[PJC]
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