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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Overreach  \O`ver*reach"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Overreached}, 
  ({Overraught},  obs.);  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Overreaching}.] 
  1.  To  reach  above  or  beyond  in  any  direction. 
 
  2.  To  deceive,  or  get  the  better  of  by  artifice  or  cunning; 
  to  outwit;  to  cheat.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  overreaching 
  adj  :  revealing  excessive  self-confidence;  reaching  for  the 
  heights;  "vaulting  ambition"  [syn:  {vaulting}] 




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