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overextend

overextend

English

Verb

overextend (third-person singular simple present overextends, present participle overextending, simple past and past participle overextended)

  1. To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit
  2. (linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.

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