overstretch

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词形变化

overstretches 复数 overstretches overstretched overstretches 三单 overstretching overstretching 现在分词 overstretched 过去式 overstretched 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of stretching something too far or beyond available resources.

v.
  1. 1.

    To stretch too far.

    1640, Charles I of England, Speech given to the Lords and Commons, at the Benquetting-House in White-Hall, 25 January, 1640, in The Works of King Charles the Martyr, London: Ric[hard] Chiswell, p. 169, If some of [the Bishops] have overstretched their power, and incroached too much upon the Temporalty, if it be so, I shall not be unwilling these things should be redressed and reformed […]

    1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Dublin: Whitestone et al., Volume 1, Lecture 16, p. 380, How far a Hyperbole, supposing it properly introduced, may be safely carried without overstretching it; what is the proper measure and boundary of this figure, cannot, as far as I know, be ascertained by any precise rule.

  2. 2.

    To stretch over something.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

pull

上位词 2

wound injure

词源

From Middle English overstrecchen, corresponding to over- + stretch. Compare Dutch overstrekken (“to overstretch”), German überstrecken (“to overstretch”).

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