overstrain, overextend
(verb) strain excessively; “He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
overextend (third-person singular simple present overextends, present participle overextending, simple past and past participle overextended)
To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit.
(linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
(chess, transitive) To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
Source: Wiktionary
12 February 2025
(noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung’s disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
