overreach

Verb

fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
beat through cleverness and wit
To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (British, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.
To deceive, to swindle.
To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
To get the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit.

Noun

An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.
Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action.

Origin / Etymology

The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- + reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over.

Synonyms

beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, abuse, cheat, counterfeit, deceive, defraud, dissemble, dissimulate, exceed, excel, feign, forpass, go beyond, jiff, outcompass, outstep, outstrip, overgo, overpass, overreach, overstep, overstride, put on, sham, spoof, surpass, transcend, transgress, trespass, trick

Scrabble Score: 17

overreach: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
overreach: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
overreach: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

overreach: valid Words With Friends Word