Dictionary Entry
overreach
overreach is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To reach above or beyond in any direction. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 18 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To reach above or beyond in any direction.
- 2transitive verb
To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
- 3intransitive verb
To reach too far
- 4intransitive verb
To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.
- 5intransitive verb
To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
- 6intransitive verb
To cheat by cunning or deception.
- 7noun
The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
- 8verb
beat through cleverness and wit
"I beat the traffic"
"She outfoxed her competitors"
- 9verb
fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
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