0 past simple and past participle of overreach
1 to fail by trying to achieve, spend, or do more than you can manage:
State health authorities are overreaching their authority.
The Supreme Court ruled that the FDA had overreached its authority.
When a court overreaches its bounds and decides to legislate from the bench, it's pretty hard to overturn that.
The army frequently overreached itself.
On this particular occasion, however, they have overreached themselves.
Some trade union leaders had political ambitions that overreached their duties as trade union leaders, and they were unable to distinguish between the two.
I said that when criticism of a government rises to such a pitch that it makes the task of government impossible, criticism has overreached itself.
His reaction was to say that the court had in some way overreached itself or gone wrong.
