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How to pronounce “overextend”
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Pronunciation guide for overextend
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of overextend with real speech in context.
- Available examples
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- Real speech example
- The Right and Wrong Stuff
I overextend by saying yes to too many things.
- Definition summary
- To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
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How to pronounce overextend
The Right and Wrong Stuff
I overextend by saying yes to too many things.
Example Sentences
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
- (linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
- (chess, transitive) To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
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