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Definition of Overextending
1. overextend [v] - See also: overextend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overextending
Literary usage of Overextending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"The pain in these joints is vastly relieved by straightening up and overextending
the back— in fact, overextension is necessary at times to relieve the ..."
2. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"The overlapping and overextending lines of the constructive stage should not be
erased before inking. These extensions are often convenient in showing the ..."
3. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"The overlapping and overextending lines of the constructive stage should not be
erased before inking. These extensions are often convenient in showing the ..."
4. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"... Hitler was overextending himself without adequate rail and road communications
and it had already been demonstrated that in winter the German offense ..."
5. The Financial Organization of Society by Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"as a means of preventing the selling of notes by any one borrower through a large
number of houses simultaneously, and thereby greatly overextending its ..."
6. Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy Toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus by Monteagle Stearns (1992)
"These declarations avoided the danger felt by some founding members of overextending
NATO's commitments and permitted the United States and Britain to ..."
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