Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overreaching"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Overreach \O`ver*reach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overreached},
({Overraught}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Overreaching}.]
1. To reach above or beyond in any direction.
2. To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning;
to outwit; to cheat. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
overreaching
adj : revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the
heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: {vaulting}]
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