Usually means: Reaching beyond reasonable or safe limits.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word overextending:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. overextending: Merriam-Webster
  2. overextending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overextending: Vocabulary.com
  4. overextending: Wordnik
  5. overextending: Wiktionary
  6. overextending: Dictionary.com
  7. overextending: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overextending: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overextending: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overextend)

verb:  To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
verb:  (linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
verb:  (chess, transitive) To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
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