Synonyms for overreach
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Overstep — to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree
overstep, exceed, outreach, transcend, surpass, overpass US CA, overstride, transgress, outstrip, outstep, overgo dated
2. Outwit
3. Deceive — to deceive, to swindle
do, deceive, cheat, defraud, take in, trick, victimize, victimise UK, delude, bilk, bamboozle informal, cozen, gull, dupe, diddle, juggle, gammon, chouse, betray, hoax, humbug, swindle, befool dated
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Definitions
- v. 1
To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
- v. 2
To deceive, to swindle.
- v. 3
To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (UK, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party
Related words
- Word family
- overreaching
Forms
- Past participle
- overreached
e.g. overreached → overstepped, exceeded, outreached, transcended…
Example sentences
- overstep I'm sorry, I didn't mean to overstep my bounds.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| overreach | rising | |
| overstep | steady | |
| overstride | steady | |
| outfox | rising | |
| cozen | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 2 letters
- do1
- 4 letters
- beat1, hoax1, gull1, dupe1, bilk1
- 5 letters
- trick1, cheat1, cozen
- 6 letters
- exceed2, betray2, juggle2, humbug2, outwit2, delude2, gammon2, diddle2, outfox2, overgo, chouse, befool
- 7 letters
- surpass2, deceive2, defraud2, swindle2, outstep
- 8 letters
- outreach2, overpass3, outsmart2, overstep3, outstrip2
- 9 letters
- transcend2, victimize3, bamboozle, victimise
- 10 letters
- circumvent3, transgress2, overstride
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exceed2 = 2 syllables).