overextend

Thân thiện

He overextended himself by trying to lift the heavy box.

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.

Học thuật

Verb

1. strain excessively
   • He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment

Từ đồng nghĩa

• overstrain