overextend
Definition
Verb: 1. To strain or push (oneself or something) beyond safe, reasonable, or prudent limits: To commit more resources (such as time, money, or effort) than is sustainable or advisable. 2. To extend or stretch something too far: To cause to reach beyond its proper or effective point.
Usage and Examples
- Verb (transitive, often reflexive):
- He tends to overextend himself by taking on too many projects at once.
- Be careful not to overextend your finances with a mortgage that is too large.
- The company overextended its operations into too many new markets too quickly.
Advanced Usage
- Financial Context: Commonly used to describe taking on excessive debt or financial obligations.
- Investors warned that the firm was dangerously overextended.
- Physical Context: Can refer to stretching a muscle or limb beyond its normal range of motion, leading to injury.
- The gymnast overextended her elbow during the routine.
Variants and Related Words
- Overextension (noun): The act or result of overextending.
- The overextension of credit led to the economic crisis.
- Overextended (adjective): Describing the state of having been strained beyond limits.
- She felt overextended and needed a vacation.
Synonyms
- Overstrain: To subject to excessive strain.
- Overreach: To fail by trying to achieve more than is possible.
- Overcommit: To obligate (oneself) beyond the capacity for fulfillment.
Related Phrases
- To be overextended: The common state resulting from the action of the verb.
- With three jobs and night classes, he is completely overextended.
Verb
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strain excessively
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He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment
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