0 to spend too much money, or borrow more money than you can pay back:
It is a sad fact that many people overextended their mortgage commitments and now face difficulties.
overextend yourself Borrowers overextend themselves in refinancing to cover unforeseen expenses.
1 to try to do more work or other activities than you can manage:
The procedure was repeated until the child overextended four words or until the experimenter ran through the eight-item stimulus set.
Unexpectedly, results indicated that apple was overextended much more often than dog.
Twenty-two children were observed to overextend an objective form for a nominative form.
Twenty-two of these 27 children were observed to overextend an objective pronoun for a nominative pronoun at least once.
Nonetheless, children in all age groups (even four-year-olds) did at times overextend in comprehension, on a task for which demands to overextend were minimized.
As is usual in such times, many overextended themselves.
A third motivation for overextending based on shape may be that children treat certain words as if they are classifiers.
The two children who overextended they, 13 and 28, were not observed to overextend them for they at all (column 3).
