OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 14741

overreach

/ˌəʊvəˈɹiːt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pasarse de frenada
To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
Records [of library loans] must be protected from the self-appointed guardians of public and private morality and from officials who might overreach their constitutional prerogativ…
The British Empire would not have endured so long had it not been for a discreet sense of moderation in its rulers, generation after generation. The coolness displayed towards the…