Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who overreaches; one who deceives.
- noun A horse that overreaches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.
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- noun One who
overreaches .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Appears Maliki is learning some very undemocratic behavior from our very own “overreacher.”
Think Progress » Hadley Ducks Question Over Whether Rumsfeld Suggestion Is ‘Cutting And Running’ 2006
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And the mummy's return to life always seems to be caused by some archeologist's hubristic violation of some ancient shibboleth, which, like Shelley's interpretive intervention in the 1831 preface, encourages us to see the story as a conflict between authority and the overreacher, between age and youth, between fathers and sons.
'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003
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Victor's story follows the Male Gothic pattern of the overreacher punished.
'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003
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Gothic trajectory of the overreacher who fails and dies.
Abstracts 2003
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Mr. Milburn was described as a vile Yankee type of miser and overreacher, who had plotted against the fortune of a gentleman and the virtue of his daughter for a long series of remorseless years.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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His ambition was to see his daughter Margaret marry a peer; but the overreacher was overreached.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Chronic overreacher Darren Aronofsky's relatively unpretentious follow-up to the ridiculous debacle that was
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Chronic overreacher Darren Aronofsky's relatively unpretentious follow-up to the ridiculous debacle that was
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It's a role in which Sam West positively revels; he is perfect as this suave, grandiloquent and crass overreacher.
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