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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13 words match “OVERREACH”

OVERREACH v. 6 definitions
To reach above or beyond in any direction.
OVERREACHER n.
One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.
ADVANTAGE n.
honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.
ATTAINT n.
A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching. White.
BITE n.
a fraud. [Colloq.] The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching. Humorist.
DEFRAUD v.
a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld. We have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. Hooker.…
DIDDLE v.
To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] Beaconsfield.
DO v.
To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. De Quincey.
GREASE v.
To cheat or cozen; to overreach. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
OUTGO v.
To circumvent; to overreach. [Obs.] Denham.
OUTWIT v.
To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.
REACH v.
To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] South.
SURMOUNT v.
To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop. The mountains of Olympus, Athos, and Atlas, overreach and surmount all winds and clouds. Sir W. Raleigh.