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overstretch en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).

Meanings

  1. The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.

Forms

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overstretches Number=Plur lexicographic

overstretch en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).

Meanings

  1. To stretch too far.
    • 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 1, Lecture 16, p. 380, How far a Hyperbole, supposing it properly introduced, may be safely carried without overstretching it; what is the proper measure and boundary of this figure, cannot, as far as I know, be ascertained by any precise rule.
    • 1640, Charles I of England, Speech given to the Lords and Commons, at the Benquetting-House in White-Hall, 25 January, 1640, in The Works of King Charles the Martyr, London: Ric[hard] Chiswell, p. 169, If some of [the Bishops] have overstretched their power, and incroached too much upon the Temporalty, if it be so, I shall not be unwilling these things should be redressed and reformed […]
    • […] outwardly in Oyls or Oyntments, it mightily helps such members as are out of joynt or overstretched. 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London Dispensatory, London: Peter Cole, page 50:
    • The idle triumphes, maskes, lasciuious showes And prodigall gifts bestowed on Gaueston, Haue drawne thy treasure drie, and made thee weake, The murmuring commons ouerstretched hath. 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  2. To stretch over something.

Forms

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overstretching Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overstretched Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overstretched Tense=Past lexicographic
overstretches Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

overstretched

Translations (1)

es estirar demasiadamente (Translations)