Overstretch

Quick meaning: Overstretch is a verb meaning To stretch too far.

Meaning

To stretch too far.

More Meanings

1. To stretch over something.
2. The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.

Example Sentences

[…] outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it mightily helps such members as are out of joynt or overstretched.

The idle triumphes, maskes, lasciuious showes And prodigall gifts bestowed on Gaueston, Haue drawne thy treasure drie, and made thee weake, The murmuring commons ouerstretched hath.

1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 1, Lecture 16, p. 380, How far a Hyperbole, supposing it properly introduced, may be safely carried without overstretching it; what is the proper measure and boundary of this figure, cannot, as far as I know, be ascertained by any precise rule.

1640, Charles I of England, Speech given to the Lords and Commons, at the Benquetting-House in White-Hall, 25 January, 1640, in The Works of King Charles the Martyr, London: Ric[hard] Chiswell, p. 169, If some of [the Bishops] have overstretched their power, and incroached too much upon the Temporalty, if it be so, I shall not be unwilling these things should be redressed and reformed […]

Word Forms

• overstretches
• overstretching
• overstretched

Synonyms for overstretch

Depending on context, synonyms include pull.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pull, overload, overcharge, overhead, overloading, overburdening.

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