Overreached Definition

Overreached Sentence Examples

• His successful opponents, however, overreached themselves when in 1824 they removed him from the office of canal commissioner.

• Austria considered herself overreached, and began negotiations with Russia for the third and final partition, which was effected by the three powers in 1795.

• Here, however, the author of this book has overreached himself in his zeal for the cause of Islam.

• In his belief that he could ensnare the courts of London and St Petersburg into separate and proportionately disadvantageous treaties, he overreached himself.