overreach
verb (used with object)
to reach or extend over or beyond.
overreacher
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a word derived from
overreach.
Example Sentences
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Embedded in an experimental comedy is the tale of a tragic overreacher, a mortal who has come to assume a godlike dominion over the rest of the planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
That perennial bard of the crazed overreacher, Werner Herzog, has described the process of guerilla film-making as “the sacred right of trespass”.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2017
This time, it appears that Abbott is the overreacher.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2014
He seems more overreacher than Reacher, while the dependable Jenkins and the seductive Pike drift through the action with nothing to get a purchase on.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2012
His ambition was to see his daughter Margaret marry a peer; but the overreacher was overreached.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
