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The word is in the Wiktionary3 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)— English words —- overextend v. To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit.
- overextend v. (Linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
- overextend v. (Chess, transitive) To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent’s attacks.
29 English words from 3 English definitionsapply attacks becomes beyond Chess degree especially excessive expand extend far limit Linguistics many opponent overextension pawn push referents safe so␣that term that the too too␣many to␣the transitive vulnerable 5 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)overextends overextended overextender overextenders overextending 22 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)end End -end end- ere Ere 'ere ext ext. extend over Over over- rex Rex ten TEN tend 'tend ver ver. Vere 14 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)DNE ere Ere 'ere net Net NET .NET rev Rev rev. Rev. Xer xer- One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)overextends
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